Late Preceramic: 3000 to 1800 bc

Late Preceramic: 3000 to 1800 BC

• Late Preceramic: 3000 to 1800 BC

• Initial (ceramic) Period: 1800 to 400 BC

• Three Horizon and Two Intermediate Periods

• Early Horizon (Integration): 400 to 200 BC

• Early Intermediate (Regionalism): 200 BC to AD 650

• Middle Horizon (Integration): AD 650-1000

• Late Intermediate (Regionalism): AD 1000-1476

• Late Horizon (Inka; integration): AD 1476-1533

“The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization” (Moseley 1975): “Maritime Hypothesis”

• “The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization” (Moseley 1975): “Maritime Hypothesis”

• Rich marine resources provided basis

• for early settled communities

• and complex societies, such as

• Caral, Aspero, and El Paraiso,

• On Peru’s desert coast

• - Ample evidence of

• Industrial crops (cotton,

• Gourds, reeds) but less

• Evidence of food crops

• - Also, El Nino (natural

• disaster) and drought

Necropolis of elite burials in subterranean vaults with elaborate mummy bundles and exquisite fabrics in dazzling colors

• Necropolis of elite burials in subterranean vaults with elaborate mummy bundles and exquisite fabrics in dazzling colors