The Wari (500 AD-800 AD) and Tiwanaku (500 AD-1000 AD) states both established settlements in the Osmore drainage of southern Peru. Although the Wari center of Cerro Baśl has often been considered a highly defensible intrusion into Tiwanaku territory, preliminary survey evidence indicates that the Wari actually settled just outside the region occupied by Tiwanaku, in an area that was populated sparsely, if at all. Models of the interaction between Wari and Tiwanaku, and Wari's goals in colonizing the region, are briefly evaluated using settlement pattern maps and other evidence from an ongoing systematic site survey.
The Wari culture (600-850 A.D.) belongs to the most important prehistorical cultures of Peru. It developed in the mountaino
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