Title on Photograph: SOUTH AMERICA, 500 BC - AD 600. EARLY HORIZON TO EARLY INTERMEDIATE PERIOD.
Material: MAP
Comments on Photo: IMAGE FROM: ONIANS, JOHN (2004), ATLAS OF WORLD ART. LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING LTD. MAP 2, PAGE 57.
Comments on Subject: ANDEAN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT DURING THIS PERIOD WAS CLEARLY AFFECTED BY THE COMPARATIVE CLOSENES OF VERY CONTRASTING ECOSYSTEMS. BECAUSE OF THE VERY PRONOUNCED TOPOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AMERICA, A RANGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ZONES, INCLUDING COASTAL DESERTS, MOUNTAINS AND TROPICAL JUNGLES WERE ALL WITHIN EASY REACH. THIS PROXIMITY RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CULTURAL ASSEMBLAGE THAT WAS BOTH MATERIALLY ADN SYMBOLICALLY VERY RICH.
