The Classical WorldCulture & Arts Paracas culture c. 800 BCENotable A culture on Peru's south coast produces richly embroidered textiles and practices cranial modification. It was the forerunner of the Nazca. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Mehrgarh → Cotton cultivated → Caral, first city in the Americas → Chavín culture → Paracas culture Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesBookAnne Paul (ed.)Paracas Art and Architecture ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeParacas culture textiles Peru ↗Editor's pick