page_title: Cupisnique
hierarchical_section_title: Cupisnique
caption_attribution_description: English: Cupisnique Ceramics. Larco Museum Collection. Lima, Peru. Free Use.
context_page_description: Cupisnique was a pre-Columbian culture which flourished from ca. 1500 to 500 BC along what is now Peru's northern Pacific Coast. The culture had a distinctive style of adobe clay architecture but shared artistic styles and religious symbols with the later Chavin culture which arose in the same area at a later date.
context_section_description: Cupisnique was a pre-Columbian culture which flourished from ca. 1500 to 500 BC along what is now Peru's northern Pacific Coast. The culture had a distinctive style of adobe clay architecture but shared artistic styles and religious symbols with the later Chavin culture which arose in the same area at a later date.
caption: Stirrup-handled Cupinisque ceramic vase 1250BC Larco Museum Collection
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