LOCATION The Cerro Colorado deposit in the Paracas Peninsula, located 18km south of the port of Pisco. DISCOVERER
The famous Peruvian scientist Julio César Tello Rojas in 1925. CHRONOLOGY
has two periods: Paracas Caverns (700ac - 400AC).
Paracas Necropolis (400AC - 100AC)
GENERAL
is considered by Taylor as the parent culture of the coast, culture bridge between Chavinoid and Tiahuanaco.
are the best surgeons and textile Ancient Peru.
It is the best preserved mummies in the world.
had beliefs in the afterlife, so mummified their dead. They had as
language: The Pukina. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
State theocratic rule of a priestly caste.
addition, possibly the first military state of the Andean world.
are going to implement the oppressive system.
is given the existence of a string of ceremonial centers by the priestly caste and now military. Cutural ASPECTS
stressed mainly in textiles and medicine. They
surgery and cranial trepanation.
In short, they are considered the best textiles of ancient Peru. CERAMIC
Paracas Caverns: It was polychrome paint but fugitive, ie dyes after cooking. Influence of Chavín, the drawings of cats prevail. Is incisive and decorated with geometric shapes.
Paracas Necropolis: It was monochrome (creamy) precooking paint. Acalabazada form, sculpture and spherical. Textiles
Paracas Caverns: Bundles funeral. Little development and influence of Chavin.
Paracas Necropolis: Thin coats made of wool, cotton, feathers, hair, vegetable-dyes (Achiote), minerals and animals.
are the best textiles of ancient Peru.
Decorated with geometric figures, as Victoria de La Jara is a likely write (Tokapus), decorated anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, demonic beings.
MEDICAL TECHNIQUES
Considered the best surgeons in ancient Peru, used obsidian tools, used as anesthetics chicha and coca. They made
mummification techniques (belief in the afterlife), cranial deformation with aesthetic and social class differentiation.
trepanning to cure bruises or mental illness.
GRAVES FUNERAL
Paracas Caverns: Tombs ground with a form of long-necked bottle, where funeral bundles placed.
Paracas Necropolis: Cemetery at the surface rectangular. RELIGION
Considered the best surgeons in ancient Peru, used obsidian tools, used as anesthetics chicha and coca. They made
mummification techniques (belief in the afterlife), cranial deformation with aesthetic and social class differentiation.
trepanning to cure bruises or mental illness.
GRAVES FUNERAL
Paracas Caverns: Tombs ground with a form of long-necked bottle, where funeral bundles placed.
Paracas Necropolis: Cemetery at the surface rectangular. RELIGION
polytheists. The God of water.