PARACAS CULTURE

Honelako gehiago

Agriculture

by Kaleb Johnson

How does watching TV affect you

by Theodore koo

Religion & Identity

by Hannah Tomlinson

Festival Fringe

by sandra Dayan Pérez

PARACAS CULTURE

APPEARANCE

DRESS

GOLD

LONG MANTLES

ELONGATED SKULLS

TATTOOED SKIN

RELIGION

FUNERALS

TOMBS

FORM

INVERTED CUP

UNDER THE SAND

THEY MUMMIFIED THE DEAD

IN UNDERGROUND RECTANGULAR CEMETERIES.

NAME OF GOD

KON

THEOCENTRIC

TEXTILES

PARACAS PANTLES

WRAPPED MUMMIES

MATERIALS

WOOL

COTTON

POLYCHROME AND DETAILED

MEDICINE

ANESTECIA

COCA LEAF

HEALING

GOLD SILVER

PROCEDURE

THEY MADE A HOLE IN THE SKULL

CRANEAL TREPANATION

PATIENTS

RESIDENTS WITH PAIN OR BRUISES IN THE HEAD

DAILY LIVE

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

BARTER

FISHING

CERAMIC

THEME

RELIGIOUS PURPOSES

MADE OF CLAY

POLYCHROME

AGRICULTURE

FRUITS

CORN

EDUCATION

THEY EDUCATED WITH ACTIVITIES TO SURVIVE

FOOD

THEY ATE A LOT OF TUBERS

SOCIAL DIVITION

PEASANTS AND ARTISANS

MILITARY AND PRIESTS

HISTORY

CULTURES

PARACAS-NECROPOLIS

(500 b.C. - 400 a.C.)

PARACAS-CAVERNS

(700 b.C. - 500 b.C.)

EXTENSION

FROM CHINCHA TO AREQUIPA

INFLUENCE

CHAVIN CULTURE

DISCOVERY

By ARQ. JULIO C. TELLO

1925

ORIGIN

Northern Peru

S.700 a. C

ETYMOLOGY

"PARACA" IN QUECHUA

"-ACCO"

SAND

"PARA-"

RAIN

"RAIN OF SAND"