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Nazca Culture
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 GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION:
It developed in all the basin of the Río Grande (Nazca, Santa Cruz, Río Grande e Ingenio) in the provinces de Ica, Palpa y Nazca (Ica Department).
PERIOD:
Early Middle
AGE:
From 100 to 800 A.C.
DISCOVERY:
It was discovered by Federico Max Uhle in 1901
TERRITORIAL EXTENSION:
In the North, it reached until the Río Rimac (Rimac river), in the East, part of Ayacucho and Huancavelica and in the South, it reached the provinces of Caraveli and Camana (Arequipa).
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS:
MAIN EXPRESSIONS OF ITS CULTURE
CERAMICS:
It had globular shape with neck bridge shaped handle (asa puente), the pottery was painted with paintbrush.
They knew 11 colors (polychrome) among them, the red, black, brown, blue, ocher, yellow, gray, etc.
It had a fine finish and with drawings of geometric shapes.
AGRICULTURE:
The economy was based on the agriculture
They built hydraulic works as canals, aqueducts, tunnels, reservoirs and they employed natural fertilizers, for example: in Agua Santa, Maratá, Achirama, etc.
ASTRONOMY:
According to Maria Reiche, (Las Líneas de Nazca) Nazca Lines situated in the Pampa de San José (Nazca) were an Agricultural Calendar
ARCHITECTURE:
They employed the adobe in shape of brick.
Cahuachi, Tinguiña, Tambo Viejo, Dacha del Loro, El Ocucaje, Chaviña, Estanquería are the archeological remains that there are still. |
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