Late Preceramic ceremonial architecture at Asana, southern Peru
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 64 (244) , 479-493
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00078388
Abstract
Ceremonial architecture over 4600 years old has been discovered at the open air site of Asana in the high sierra of southern Peru – the best part of a thousand years earlier than in the central Andean sierra and with different architectural detail, form and content. This discovery provides new insights into a new regional architectural tradition and an alternative trajectory for the evolution of settled village life in the Andean highlandsKeywords
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