Archaeological culture · c. 100 BCE – 800 CE
Nazca culture
The people of the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca and Ica on Peru's dry south coast, heirs of Paracas. They made brightly painted pottery and textiles, created most of the Nazca Lines, and dug puquios, underground aqueducts, some still working today.
Cahuachi was their great pilgrimage centre.
See Nazca culture on the map in 100 BCE
- On the map
- 100 BCE – 800 CE
How we know
No writing existed; known from pottery, textiles, the Nazca Lines and sites such as Cahuachi, dated by radiocarbon and pottery styles.
Sites
- Nazca Lines c. 500 BCE – 500 CE
- Cahuachi c. 1–500 CE