# Paracas culture emerges (c. 800 BCE)

URL: https://allhistories.com/peru/timeline/-800-paracas-culture-emerges
Location: Paracas Peninsula, Ica
Themes: Culture

On the southern coast around the Paracas Peninsula and the Ica and Pisco valleys, the Paracas culture develops from about 800 BCE. Its people practise irrigated farming and fishing, produce incised polychrome pottery and bury their dead in elaborate shaft tombs. Paracas also practised cranial modification and trepanation. Its centres included Cerrillos and Ánimas Altas.

## Why it matters
Paracas created the artistic and textile traditions of the south coast that the Nazca culture later inherited and developed.

Ruler at the Time: [Andean and Amazonian peoples](https://allhistories.com/peru/rulers/andean-and-amazonian-peoples)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Paracas culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracas_culture)
- [Wikipedia — Paracas Peninsula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracas_Peninsula)
- [Wikipedia — Formative (period overview)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav%C3%ADn_culture)