HISTORY OF PERU SERIES – Part 5: THE PUCLLANA PERIOD

A.D. 200 –  650/800 -   The Lima Culture: Betwixt or Amidst the Moche and the Nasca By Paul Goulder  –The fifth of a series of articles on Peru’s history, incorporating stories from the Peruvian Times archives, as well as links to videos, audio and other external sources to provide a rich background of information.  –  Two seemingly archaic [...]

LOOKING BACK: Two Thousand Years Ago: Settlers on the Chillón

By James Vreeland  Published in  The Lima Times* November 28, 1975 In 1900 BC less than 2,000 people lived in the lower Chillón Valley to the north of Lima. But for this ancient era, several centuries before the invention of pottery, such a figure could be considered a sizable coastal valley population, for many Andeans [...]