The Killke culture occupied the region around
Cusco||}Cusco or Cuzco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province. The city has a population of 348,935 which is triple the figure of 20 years ago...
from 900 to 1200 A.D., prior to the arrival of the
IncaThe Inca civilization began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac founded the Kingdom of Cuzco around 1200. Under the leadership of the descendants of Manco Capac, the Inca state grew to absorb other Andean communities. In 1442, the Incas began a...
s in the 1200s.
Killke culture flourished in
highlandThe term highland or upland is used to denote any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau.The Scottish Highlands refers to the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault...
PeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico...
in the
Late Intermediate PeriodThis is a chart of Cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dates for some archaeological finds...
around what is now Cuzco. The massive fortress
SacsayhuamánSacsayhuamán is an Inca walled complex near the old city of Cusco, at an altitude of 3,701 m. The site is part of the City of Cuzco, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983....
, was later used by the Incas, was originally built by people of this culture in the twelfth century. In 2007, excavations uncovered a temple on the edge of the fortress, indicating religious as well as military use of the facility.
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The Killke culture occupied the region around
Cusco||}Cusco or Cuzco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province. The city has a population of 348,935 which is triple the figure of 20 years ago...
from 900 to 1200 A.D., prior to the arrival of the
IncaThe Inca civilization began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac founded the Kingdom of Cuzco around 1200. Under the leadership of the descendants of Manco Capac, the Inca state grew to absorb other Andean communities. In 1442, the Incas began a...
s in the 1200s.
Killke culture flourished in
highlandThe term highland or upland is used to denote any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau.The Scottish Highlands refers to the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault...
PeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico...
in the
Late Intermediate PeriodThis is a chart of Cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dates for some archaeological finds...
around what is now Cuzco. The massive fortress
SacsayhuamánSacsayhuamán is an Inca walled complex near the old city of Cusco, at an altitude of 3,701 m. The site is part of the City of Cuzco, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983....
, was later used by the Incas, was originally built by people of this culture in the twelfth century. In 2007, excavations uncovered a temple on the edge of the fortress, indicating religious as well as military use of the facility.
Archaeologists discovered, on March 13, 2008, the ruins of an another ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at
SacsayhuamánSacsayhuamán is an Inca walled complex near the old city of Cusco, at an altitude of 3,701 m. The site is part of the City of Cuzco, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983....
, overlooking the
IncaThe Inca civilization began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac founded the Kingdom of Cuzco around 1200. Under the leadership of the descendants of Manco Capac, the Inca state grew to absorb other Andean communities. In 1442, the Incas began a...
capital of Cuzco. Part of the temple was destroyed by dynamite blasts in the early 20th century, when the site was used as a stone quarry. The new excavations began in June 2007 and will continue for another five years to 2012.
Killke ceramics were first identified by John H. Rowe, though identified by him as early Inca. The vessels are often globular with vertical strap-handles, with simple linear geometric decorations of black or black on red over a white or buff slip .