Stone carved head cabeza clava in the subterranean tunnels of Chavin de Huantar Cordillera Blanca Northern Peru

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Stone carved head cabeza clava in the subterranean tunnels of Chavin de Huantar Cordillera Blanca Northern Peru The first Peruvian civilization settled in Huantar Ancash in around 1000 BC The power of the civilization based on a theocracy was centered in the Chavin de Huantar temple whose walls and galleries were filled with sculptures of ferocious deities with feline features

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Location: Peru
Photo credit: © Jamie Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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