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This is a chart ofcultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dates for some archaeological finds.

Most of the cultures of theLate Horizon and some of the cultures of the Late Intermediate joined theInca Empire by 1493, but the period ends in 1532 because that marks the fall of the Inca Empire after theSpanish conquest. Most of the cut-off years mark either an end of a severe drought or the beginning of one. These marked a shift of the most productive farming to or from the mountains and tended to mark the end of one culture and the rise of another.

The more recent findings concerning theNorte Chico civilization are not included on this list, as it was compiled before the site atCaral was investigated in detail.

• Ancient Peru
• Amazonas before the Inca Empire
• The Pre-IncanLost Pyramid of Puñay

• Edward P. Lanning; 1967 Peru Before the Incas. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,ISBN 0-13-661595-3
• Rowe, John Howland.; Menzel, Dorothy, (1967), Peruvian Archeology - Selected Readings. California, Peel Publications.

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