Handcrafts

En Global Express Tours el 2010.03.06

In the department of Ida, between the years 100 C.E. and 400 C.E., the Nazca culture developed on the Peruvian coast. The Nazca civilization was small and comprised of fishers who were descendants of the ancient Paracas of the Chincha Valley. Among the most outstanding of their arts, ceramics is the most well-known today. The Nazca artisans stood out from the rest of the pre-Incan cultures by the way they decorated their ceramic pottery. Since, unlike the Mochica culture, they didn?t concentrate on...