12 Facts About Wari culture

Wari culture were a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about 500 to 1000 AD.

The best-preserved remnants, beside the Wari culture Ruins, are the recently discovered Northern Wari culture ruins near the city of Chiclayo, and Cerro Baul in Moquegua.

However, there is still a debate whether the Wari culture dominated the Central Coast or the polities on the Central Coast were commercial states capable of interacting with the Wari culture people without being politically dominated by them.

The Wari introduced terracing agriculture to the area, shifting the staple crops of the valley from tubers to both tubers and maize.

Early on, the Wari culture expanded their territory to include the ancient oracle center of Pachacamac, though it seems to have remained largely autonomous.

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Later, the Wari became dominant in much of the territory of the earlier Moche and later Chimu cultures.

Archeologists have determined that the city of Wari culture was dramatically depopulated by 1000 AD, although it continued to be occupied by a small number of descendant groups.

Wari culture architecture was most often made of rough fieldstones that had been coated in white plaster.

Some scholars believe that the Wari culture Staff god was a predecessor of the three Incan principle gods, Sun, Moon, and Thunder.

Wari culture are particularly known for their textiles, which were well-preserved in desert burials.

Wari culture produced highly sophisticated metalwork and ceramics, with similar designs to the textiles.

Conchopata appears to have been the ceramic center of Wari culture given the high quantities of pottery tools, firing rooms, pit kilns, potsherds, and ceramic molds.