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Chimu Culture |
 GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION:
It developed in the valleys of Chicama, Moche and Viru (department of La Libertad).
PERIOD:
Later Middle
AGE:
From 1200 to 1465A.C.
DISCOVERY
It was discovered by Federico Max Uhle in 1902.
TERRITORIAL EXTENSION:
In the North, it reached the department of Piura and in the South, it reached the Carabayllo Valley at the north of Rimac valley (Lima).
 MAIN CHARACTERISTICS:
MAIN EXPRESSIONS OF ITS CULTURE:
METALLURGY:
Their works were very refined and high technique (specially in goldwork and silverwork.
They knew: smelting, lamination, forging, molded, hammering, welding, repoussé, gilding, silver-plating, alloied, etc. For example, masks, diadems, earrings, rings, knives (the tumi o Illino knife: Naylamp God))
 AGRICULTURE:
They employed the adobe: buildings, fortress, temples, cities. For example, Chan Chan, Paramonga; those were built by the Yanas (slaves).
CERAMICS:
They used one color (black and its changes) and sometimes brown.
It did not get the finish of Mochica culture.
It represented animals, plants, people, etc.
It had globular shape with neck or bridge shaped handle (asa Puente) and hamper handle (asa de canasta).
AGRICULTURE:
They used hydraulic technologies: irrigations, reservoirs, canals, aqueducts, sunk small farms.
They inherited Mochica knowledges.
FISHING:
They built vessels as the reed boats (caballitos de totora).
They made nets, harpoons, with litter marine birds. |
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