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| | Understanding Chavín and the Origins of Andean Civilization |
 | | In early Andean communities dependence on more that one life zone promoted interaction, exchange and interdependency, a pattern first evidenced in the coastal valleys where the exchange pattern involved the series of elevation-stacked ecological zones beginning with maritime resources and extending inland to agricultural and pastoral habitats. |
 | | An excellent example is found in the Casma Valley, at Moxeke, 18 km from the ocean, where almost all animal protein was maritime. |
 | | Chavín civilization may be the best early expression of a similar pattern on a larger ecological scale, that of interaction between the three major ecological zones, the coast, the highlands and the tropical forests. |
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