Chavín civilization

Examples of Chavín civilization in the following topics:

• The Chavín Civilization

  • The Chavín civilization, which lasted from 900-250 BCE in Peru, featured ingenious art and architecture, and had widespread influence on other local cultures.
  • The Chavín civilization developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru between 900-250 BCE.
  • Their influence extended to other civilizations along the coast.
  • The Chavín civilization was located in the Mosna Valley, where the Mosna and Huachecsa rivers merge.
  • The chief example of Chavín architecture is the Chavín de Huántar temple.

• Architecture in Early South America

  • Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts constructed c. 1200 BCE and occupied by later cultures until around 400-500 BCE by the Chavín, a major pre-Inca culture.
  • Chavín de Huántar became a pan-regional place of importance.
  • Findings at Chavín de Huántar indicate that social instability and upheaval began to occur between 500 and 300 BCE, at the same time that the larger Chavín civilization began to decline.
  • The Chavín civilization was centered on the site of Chavín de Huántar, the religious center of the Chavín people and the capital of the Chavín culture.
  • The site of Chavín de Huántar was of both of geographical and religious significance to the Chavín.

• South America

  • This stela was found out of its original placement at the ceremonial complex, Chavín de Huantar.

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• The Indus River Valley Civilization

  • The Indus Civilization was the most widespread of the three early civilizations of the ancient world, along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
  • At its peak, the Indus Valley Civilization may had a population of over five million people.
  • In 1912, John Faithfull Fleet, an English civil servant working with the Indian Civil Services, discovered several Harappan seals.
  • The Great Bath at Mohenjo-daro, a city in the Indus River Valley Civilization.
  • Identify the importance of the discovery of the Indus River Valley Civilization

• Indus Valley Civilization

  • The Indus Valley Civilization was an urban civilization from 3300-1300 BCE that covered most of present-day Pakistan and northwest India.
  • The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age urban civilization that existed from 3300-1300 BCE and covered most of present-day Pakistan and northwest India.
  • Situated around the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra River, the Indus Valley civilization is also known as the Harappan civilization, named after Harappa, the first city to be excavated in the 1920s.
  • Socially, the Indus Civilization appears to have been relatively egalitarian in nature.
  • After the collapse, regional cultures emerged showing influence of the Indus Valley Civilization to varying degrees.

• The Caral Civilization

  • The Caral civilization flourished in the Andean region between the 30th and 18th centuries BCE.
  • The Caral civilization (also known as the Norte Chico civilization and as Caral-Supe) was a complex pre-Columbian society, located  in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru, near Supe, Barranca province, Peru (200 km north of Lima).
  • It has been established as the oldest known civilization in the Americas, and as one of the six sites where civilization separately originated in the ancient world.
  • Its urban plan was used by Andean civilizations for the next four thousand years.
  • The most impressive achievement of these civilizations was its monumental architecture, including large earthwork platform mounds and sunken circular plazas.