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Cerro Sechín, temple platform, before 900 BC (?), perspective section and plan

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Description: The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples
The Pacific Coast and the highlands of Peru, together with the Bolivian plateau, compose the central Andes. Cajamarca in northern Peru is isolated from southern Ecuador by several hundred miles of forested mountains and desert coast. On the east the tropical forests of the upper Amazon hem in the culture of the central Andes, and on the south the Atacama desert separates it from southern South America. From Ecuador to Chile, the central Andes extend for over 1000 miles, in a strip ranging from …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.359-377
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00123.017

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