2 101 x The Huari state controlled a vast territory in the highlands and on some parts of the coast. Like that of the Moche, their power seems to have been based on military conquest rather than religious influence. They introduced sophisticated irrigation and agricultural terracing to the areas they conquered.
# Huari, Reuse Huari pot from Nazca KC, IW Tiwanaku and Huari art
3 102 E The Nazca culture are best known for the enigmatic Nazca Lines, vast figures of animals, birds and geometric figures created by clearing stones in the desert. These are thought to have been linked to religious practices and iconography: similar designs are found on the fine Nazca pottery and textiles, along with images of gods and mythological figures.
# Nazca, CM Nazca Lines, PW dog/fox
4 101 x The great city of Tiwanaku was a pilgrimage and sacred centre for a cult that revolved round the Staff God. Tiwanaku-inspired material as far north as Ecuador and in coastal regions suggest that this cult was widely adopted. Tiwanaku also controlled a powerful trading empire, establishing economic colonies in areas from which important commodities came.
# Tiwanaku, Reuse part of image from Nazca KC, IW Tiwanaku state: Staff god: detail from Gateway of the Sun:
5 101 x Successors to the Chavin, the Recuay culture built underground chambers and galleries and created massive stone sculptures and sophisticated pottery. This was decorated with negative painting or modelled into animals, birds, humans and gods, and was popular among the Moche. The Recuay elite were buried in substantial underground mausolea.
# Recuay, Recuay pot of feline holding a person
6 101 x Pachacamac was the site of a famous oracle. Here a huge religious complex grew up around a hill topped by a pyramid in which was kept an object believed to have powers of divination. People from far and near visited periodically for ceremonies and festivals, each community maintaining its own shrine here.
# Pachacamac
7 101 x Like Pachacamac, Pukara was an independent town and religious centre. The substantial settlement lay at the foot of a series of terraces surmounted by a temple built of adobe (sun-dried mud) on stone foundations. Pukara was also the centre of a flourishing art style, probably related to that of Tiwanaku. Many of the motifs on its fine pottery and sculptures were religious, depicting two main deities, a male and a female.
# Pukara
8 101 x Best known of a number of cultures on the central coast, Lima was distinguished by its 'interlocking' artstyle. These coastal people built sacred pyramids, often decorated with plaster and coloured paint and buried their dead on biers, along with sacrificed household animals and servants.
# Lima
9 101 x This region in the northern highlands was one of the furthest outposts of the Tiwanaku style of architecture and religion and of the Huari state. Here at the site of Viracochapampa, the Huari established a military administrative centre.
# Cajamarca
10 101 x Pajchiri, like Luqurmata, was a regional administrative centre of the Tiwanaku, charged with overseeing the reclaimed and highly productive agricultural lands of Pampa Koani swamp. Administrators here collected taxes in kind and organized the maintenance of the drainage canals and ditches.
# Pajchiri
11 101 x Capital of the Huari state, Huari was centred on its religious complex, which included temples, encircled by a huge wall. Outside this lay a city divided into occupational districts, where many crafts flourished. The city also housed nobles and administrators. A number of the residential compounds had caches of human skulls buried beneath their floors.
# Huari(capital of Nuari state)
12 101 x The site of Conchapata near Huari was probably an important shrine of the Tiwanaku religious culture which involved worship of the 'Staff god'. Distinctive large urns, decorated in many colours, bore representations of this deity. These urns gained widespread popularity in the Huari state and Tiwanaku religious sphere.
