Killke culture
Killke Culture | |
|---|---|
| 900 AD–1200 AD | |
| Status | Civilization |
| Historical era | Late Intermediate Period |
• Established | 900 AD |
• Disestablished | 1200 AD |
The Killke culture occupied the
Incan culture in the 13th century.[1]
Killke culture flourished in
Saksaywaman during the 12th century, prior to the Incan expansion of the site.[2]
In 2007, excavations uncovered a temple on the edge of the fortress, indicating religious as well as military use of the site.[3]
Killke
John H. Rowe. These vessels often are globular with vertical strap-handles and having simple linear geometric decorations of black or black-on-red over a white or buff slip.[4]
It was the American archaeologist John Howland Rowe (1918–2004) who named the Killke culture.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Pre-Inca temple uncovered in Peru - CNN.com". Archived from the original on 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ^ Ancient temple unearthed near Inca capital, NBC News, March 14, 2008.
- ^ NEWS - Comcast.net[dead link]
- ^ Rowe, John Howland, "An Introduction to the Archaeology of Cusco,Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 27 (2); Rowe, John Howland "Inca Culture,"B.A.E. 21:200
- ^ See:
- Rowe, John H. (1944). "An introduction to the archaeology of Cuzco". Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. 27 (2): i–xii, 1–69.
- Bauer, Brian S. (2004). Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca. Austin, Texas, USA: University of Texas Press. p. 74. ISBN 9780292792029.
Bibliography
- Dwyer, E. B. 1971. The Early Inca Occupation of the Valley of Cuzco, Peru. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
- Ixer, R. A. "The Petrography of Certain Pre-Spanish Pottery from Peru," https://web.archive.org/web/20111113233438/http://www.goodprovenance.com/incapots.htm. Accessed 15 March 2008.