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    The document discusses the Chachapoyas culture and the Kuelap fortress located in Peru. The Kuelap fortress was built around 1400 AD on top of a mountain, with stone walls 20 meters high and 600 meters long. It may have been abandoned by 1470. Archaeologists have different theories on the function of the fortress, with some believing it was an administrative center, others a fortified place, and others a defensive stronghold. The fortress represents an enigma for understanding Peru's past due to its strategic location and unknown purpose.

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    The document discusses the Chachapoyas culture and the Kuelap fortress located in Peru. The Kuelap fortress was built around 1400 AD on top of a mountain, with stone walls 20 meters high and 600 meters long. It may have been abandoned by 1470. Archaeologists have different theories on the function of the fortress, with some believing it was an administrative center, others a fortified place, and others a defensive stronghold. The fortress represents an enigma for understanding Peru's past due to its strategic location and unknown purpose.

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    A04-Chachapoyas Kuelap Mystery

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    W Mabel Chávez Soto
    The document discusses the Chachapoyas culture and the Kuelap fortress located in Peru. The Kuelap fortress was built around 1400 AD on top of a mountain, with stone walls 20 meters high and 600 meters long. It may have been abandoned by 1470. Archaeologists have different theories on the function of the fortress, with some believing it was an administrative center, others a fortified place, and others a defensive stronghold. The fortress represents an enigma for understanding Peru's past due to its strategic location and unknown purpose.

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    CHACHAPOYAS

    CULTURE:
    MEN OF THE MIST
    THE KUELAP
    FORTRESS

    THE KUELAP
    FORTRESS
    It was built
    around
    It might have
    been
    abandoned:
    1470

    A Stone Wall:
    20 meters high and 600m
    long.
    For whose construction
    may.

    This represents an enigma for our past because


    Build on the top of the
    mountain

    Without knowledge of

    To tra

    Different functions
    Kauffman: large administrative
    center of agricultural production

    Bandelier and Langlois:


    Fortified place intended to

    Finally ifconsidered as a defensive stronghold

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