Huari Civilization
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of Huari ceramic vessels and textiles, dating from AD 600 to 900, which derive from the south coast of Peru. This collection comprises Huari ceramics, mostly flask-shaped jars typical of the highland style. These have decorations consisting of painted figures and designs in black and white on a red background, with borders of black and white checkerboard and, commonly, white lines dotted with black. The ceramics were strongly influenced by Nazca styles with polychrome slip painting and by the religious iconography of Tihuanaco, on Lake Titicaca. The forms, design motifs and iconography of Huari pottery eventually mixed with local styles throughout most of the coastal and mountain regions of Peru, and were found across Peru until approximately 900. The Huari culture developed in the southern highlands, inland from Nazca. It produced impressive stone architecture, situated in the area of modern Ayacucho. Its urban capital of the same name was central to the period in Peru known to archaeologists as the Middle Horizon. This period is characterized by a uniformity of ceramic styles through much of western Peru.
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