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Lima culture

Builders of the great adobe pyramids beneath modern Lima, who farmed the Rímac and Lurín valleys and painted interlocking fish on their pottery.

Eclipsed around 650 AD as Wari influence and the rise of the Pachacamac oracle reshaped the central coast.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Lima culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 100 · 401.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 100 Lima culture builds the coastal huacas In the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín valleys, the Lima culture raises adobe pyramids such as Pucllana and paints its distinctive interlocking-fish pottery.

Further reading

• Ancient South America Karen Olsen Bruhns · 1994

  The Lima culture of the central coast within a survey of ancient South America (broad context).

• The Incas and Their Ancestors Michael E Moseley · 1967

  The standard accessible synthesis of Peruvian prehistory, covering the pre-Inca central-coast cultures (Lima, Casma-Sechin, Las Haldas) in one readable volume.

Sources

• Lima culture — Wikipedia