This cloud forest culture created mosaic friezes at Gran Pajatén (“pa-ha-TEN”), built cliff tombs at Revash, and produced the Laguna de Los Cóndores textiles. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this culture that built the walled city of Kuélap in Amazonas, Peru. This culture’s people were ascribed white skin by Inca chroniclers, whose reports of their ferocity inspired their nickname of “warriors of the clouds.”
ANSWER: Chachapoya culture [or Chachapoyas; prompt on Chacha]
[10e] Like other cultures colonized by the Inca, the Chachapoyas practiced a standardized form of trepanation, in which holes are drilled in this body part.
ANSWER: skulls [accept cranium or crania; prompt on heads; prompt on skeletons or bones]
[10m] Trepanated skulls appear in Chachapoya sites from the “Late Intermediate” one of these archaeological periods used to classify the Pre-Columbian Andes. This term also refers to a black surface designated “A” in terra preta (“TEH-ra PRAY-ta”).
ANSWER: horizons [accept soil horizons; accept A horizon or pretic horizon; accept archaeological horizons; accept Late Intermediate Horizon; prompt on soil, dirt, or earth]
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