Inca Voyages of Exploration Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
...Voyages of Exploration By the time of Inca expansion in the fifteenth century c.e. , there had been three millennia of fishing off the Pacific coast of Peru . There is ample archaeological evidence of this activity: massive shell middens, datable to more than three thousand years ago, and pre-Inca pottery, textiles, and metalwork that depict fish, squid, and other marine creatures. Some ceramics and architectural reliefs of the Mochica (north coast of Peru, first millennium c.e. ) and their successors the Chimu either are decorated with large oceangoing...
