Identification

Chronologies and Culture Sequences

Bibliographies in Sources

Dwellings

Status, Role, and Prestige

Household

Community Structure

Territorial Hierarchy

Diet

Production and Supply

Organization and Analysis of Results

Occupational Specialization

Priesthood

Fauna

Flora

Form and Rules of Government

Weapons

General Tools

Utensils

Food Quest

Acculturation and Culture Contact

External Trade

Ingroup Antagonisms

Domesticated Animals

Settlement Patterns

Talent Mobility

Climate

Urban and Rural Life

Ornament

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Visual Arts

Typologies and Classifications

Population

Property in Movables

Reviews and Critiques

Diagnostic Material Attributes

Sociocultural Trends

Property System

Location

Topography and Geology

Missions

Ecstatic Religious Practices

Organized Ceremonial

General Character of Religion

Cosmology

Spirits and Gods

Social Control

TRADITION SUMMARY: CHAVÍN

ORIENTATION

ENVIRONMENT

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

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BIOTA

SETTLEMENT SYSTEM

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

HOUSING

POPULATION, HEALTH, AND DISEASE

SUBSISTENCE

WILD FOODS

DOMESTIC FOODS

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

UTENSILS

ORNAMENTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS OR CONTROL OF RESOURCES

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

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Chavín is considered to be a tradition and a religious cult, but does not appear to have been a strongly centralized state. Located along the coast and highlands of central and northern Peru, it existed from 2800–2200 BP The people of Chavín were sedentary agriculturalists and herders. Maize was only a minor part of their diet and may have been grown mostly for making chicha (maize beer) for religious ceremonies. Long distance trade was important and control of travel and trade through their area may have been what started the type site of Chavín de Huantar. Large, symbolically decorated ceremonial centers are present.

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