The Killke culture occupied the

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n region around

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, from 900 to 1200 AD, prior to the development of

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n culture in the 13th century. Killke culture flourished in

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Peru in the

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around what is now

. Archaeologist Oscar Rodriguez suggests that the Killke built small sections of the fortress '' Saksaywaman'' during the 12th century, prior to the Incan expansion of the site. In 2007, excavations uncovered a temple on the edge of the fortress, indicating religious as well as military use of the site. John H. Rowe first described killke

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. These vessels are often globular with vertical strap handles and have simple linear geometric decorations of black or black-on-red over a white or buff slip. It was the American archaeologist John Howland Rowe (1918–2004) who named the Killke culture.See: * *

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* Dwyer, E. B. 1971. ''The Early Inca Occupation of the Valley of Cuzco, Peru.'' Unpublished PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley. * Ixer, R. A. "The Petrography of Certain Pre-Spanish Pottery from Peru," https://web.archive.org/web/20111113233438/http://www.goodprovenance.com/incapots.htm. Accessed 15 March 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Killke Culture Andean civilizations Archaeological cultures of South America 10th-century establishments in South America 12th-century disestablishments in South America 2007 archaeological discoveries

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