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Multi-periodSite Name: Collud
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 7.458 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Chiclayo, Lambajeque  Nearest Village: Pomalca
Latitude: 6.7838S  Longitude: 79.7728W
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Ancient Temple in Lambayeque state, Peru.
An adobe brick temple is one of three in the Lambayeque valley and may indicate that the area was a capital for worship. Collud was found and partially excavated in 2008, and appears to have been built by people of the Cupisnique culture, ca. 1500 to 1000 B.C. A colored mural features an image of a spider god, frequent in Peru's Early Formative Period, 1200 to 400 B.C.

Archaeologist Walter Alva, director of the Royal Tombs of Sipán Museum, led the dig. His son and co-worker, Ignacio Alva, has posted photos of the site and the mural on Panoramio.

Note: 3000 year old temple in Peru holds clue to a little understood culture. See comment.
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Spider God Temple Found in Peru by bat400 on Tuesday, 11 November 2008
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Submitted by coldrum ---

A 3,000-year-old temple featuring an image of a spider god may hold clues to little-known cultures in ancient Peru.

People of the Cupisnique culture, which thrived from roughly 1500 to 1000 B.C., built the temple in the Lambayeque valley on Peru's north coast.

The adobe temple, found this summer and called Collud, is the third discovered in the area in recent years. (Watch a video of the spider-god temple.)

The finds suggest that the three valley sites may have been part of a large capital for divine worship, said archaeologist Walter Alva, director of the Royal Tombs of Sipán Museum.

Alva and colleagues started the dig in November 2007, when they discovered a 4,000-year-old temple and a mural painting at the Ventarrón site in the valley. Both the temple and mural were the oldest ever found in the Americas.

The entire religious complex houses every ancient Peruvian architectural style up to the Inca, Walter Alva said, one of only a few sites in Peru that spans so many cultures.



For more, including video images of the site, see the National Geographic.
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