South-coast Peruvians who wrapped their dead in some of the finest embroidered textiles ever woven and practised cranial surgery on the Paracas Peninsula.
Faded around 100 BC as its art and people flowed into the succeeding Nazca culture of the same desert coast.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Paracas —
the shape you scrub through changes in 800 BC · 199 BC.
Moments from the Chronicle
800 BCParacas weavers on the south coast On Peru's Paracas Peninsula, communities begin wrapping their dead in elaborately embroidered mantles and practising trepanation, founding the south coast's textile tradition.
200 BCParacas Necropolis mummy bundles At Wari Kayan, hundreds of mummies are interred in vast embroidered cloths — the apogee of Paracas weaving before the culture flows into Nazca.