Add to ORKGChristopher Donnan's Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend, explores one of the most intriguing oral histories passed down among ancient Peruvians: the legend of Naymlap, the founder of a dynasty that ruled the Lambayeque Valley of northern Peru centuries before European contact. Naymlap is said to have built his palace at a place that many now consider to be the archaeological sites of Chotuna and Chornancap. In an effort to test the validity of the Naymlap legend, Donnan directed extensive archaeological excavations at Chotuna and Chornancap--completing plans of the monumental architecture, mapping and excavating most of the major structures, and developing a chronology for the sites. This book presents the results...
Although the Cuzco Valley of Peru is renowned for being the heartland of the Incas, little is known ...
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This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavín phenomenon of ...
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great ruined and abandoned city, the capital of the Chimú kingdom (c. AD 1100–1470) and the largest ...
This work presents the story of the Chanka people of Peru, from the 15th to the 18th century, told t...
International audience"Detailed results of excavations from 1970 to 1973 at the site of Huaca Herede...
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of...
Peru’s prehistory, climate, and terrain are the landscape upon which one of humankind’s longest migr...
During the Late Intermediate period (AD 1100-1470), the lower Cañete Valley of Peru was controlled b...
The archaeological site of Puruchuco occupies all areas of Cerro Mayorazgo whose studies by archaeol...
One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in...
On the north coast of Perú in the foothills of the Andes the polity of Collambay lived in a frontier...
Machu Picchu in modern day Peru was built around 1450AD and has been named as one of the Seven Wonde...
The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands. Eme...
Although the Cuzco Valley of Peru is renowned for being the heartland of the Incas, little is known ...
Paracas was an autochthonous sociocultural tradition that emerged on the south coast of Peru during ...
This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavín phenomenon of ...
In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American h...
great ruined and abandoned city, the capital of the Chimú kingdom (c. AD 1100–1470) and the largest ...
This work presents the story of the Chanka people of Peru, from the 15th to the 18th century, told t...
International audience"Detailed results of excavations from 1970 to 1973 at the site of Huaca Herede...
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of...
Peru’s prehistory, climate, and terrain are the landscape upon which one of humankind’s longest migr...
During the Late Intermediate period (AD 1100-1470), the lower Cañete Valley of Peru was controlled b...
The archaeological site of Puruchuco occupies all areas of Cerro Mayorazgo whose studies by archaeol...
One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in...
On the north coast of Perú in the foothills of the Andes the polity of Collambay lived in a frontier...
Machu Picchu in modern day Peru was built around 1450AD and has been named as one of the Seven Wonde...
The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands. Eme...
Although the Cuzco Valley of Peru is renowned for being the heartland of the Incas, little is known ...
Paracas was an autochthonous sociocultural tradition that emerged on the south coast of Peru during ...
This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavín phenomenon of ...