Architecture Thread: Pre-Columbian Architecture - Chachapoyan Cloud People

[TheGreatest]

Not European but it stands that there might had been European influence in the architecture.


The Chachapoyan are a mysterious people who have been described as light-skinned. It was an extinct culture, when the Spaniards in the 1500's arrived in the New World.

The architecture in particular... It in sharp contrast to the kind we normally expect from Incan Architecture, let alone Mesoamerican. I don't claim to be an archelogical expert, but at a glance it looks Old World. In fact I noticed a similarity to Celtic Architecture in particular.


Chachapoyan Architecture is Mason and Circular.

The Kuelap Super Fortress. A Fort in the New World? That's right. The Incans and Aztecs had no forts. Kuelap was abandoned when the Spaniards came.









And a Chachapoyan Ruin



The Hut in particular grabbed my attention. It looked almost Celtic, or something I saw a child when looking at pictures of Norse/Viking buildings... And surely enough





A Celtic Hut.

[Aodhan]

Awesome thread indeed

[Vožd]

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