Question

This cloud forest culture created mosaic friezes at Gran Pajatén (“pa-ha-TEN”), built cliff tombs at Revash, and produced the Laguna de Los Cóndores textiles. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this culture that built the walled city of Kuélap in Amazonas, Peru. This culture’s people were ascribed white skin by Inca chroniclers, whose reports of their ferocity inspired their nickname of “warriors of the clouds.”
ANSWER: Chachapoya culture [or Chachapoyas; prompt on Chacha]
[10e] Like other cultures colonized by the Inca, the Chachapoyas practiced a standardized form of trepanation, in which holes are drilled in this body part.
ANSWER: skulls [accept cranium or crania; prompt on heads; prompt on skeletons or bones]
[10m] Trepanated skulls appear in Chachapoya sites from the “Late Intermediate” one of these archaeological periods used to classify the Pre-Columbian Andes. This term also refers to a black surface designated “A” in terra preta (“TEH-ra PRAY-ta”).
ANSWER: horizons [accept soil horizons; accept A horizon or pretic horizon; accept archaeological horizons; accept Late Intermediate Horizon; prompt on soil, dirt, or earth]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago BUC Berkeley A010010
Columbia AWUSTL B0101020
Florida AColumbia B0101020
Florida BChicago C010010
Harvard AChicago A010010
Imperial ANorth Carolina A010010
Indiana APurdue A010010
Iowa State AVirginia A0101020
Johns Hopkins ACornell A010010
MIT ADuke A0101020
Michigan APenn State A010010
Minnesota AMaryland A010010
NYU AClaremont A010010
Northwestern AMinnesota B0101020
Ohio State AMcGill A010010
Penn AVanderbilt A0101020
Rutgers AHouston A010010
Stanford ABrown A0101020
UC Berkeley BRutgers B0101020
WUSTL AToronto A010010
Yale ATexas A0101020
Yale BSouth Carolina A010010