The first pottery pieces found in Peru were made somewhere between 1500 and 1000 b.p.
The pieces were found in the central Andean region where a religious cult lived.
This cult was called Chavํn, after the best known ceremonial center, Chavํn deHucntar. The religious center was the home to massive temples that were highly embellished with low relief sculptures of gods, animals, and symbols. The
pottery found in the area where vessels that were well made and highly decorated with a similar motif as the temples. But the evolution of Peruvian pottery becomes somewhat confusing and complex after this first civilization of potters.
There is a division of people into the North Coast and the South Coast. Thesplit created two styles of pottery, although similar, they never quite merge. I am only going to talk about the north coast traditions. On the North coast there
are five cultures that evolve into the dominant Mochica style, which was one of the most vigorous and prosperous cultures of Ancient Peru. The next earliest North Coast style, other than the Chavํn, started with the Cupisnique people in
the Chicama valley. Their ceramics "closely resembled those of highland Chavํn.