chulpa
or chull·pa
[ chool-puh ]
nounArchaeology.
a type of prehistoric stone tower, found in Brazil and Peru, having living quarters over a burial chamber.
Origin of chulpa
1First recorded in 1865–70; from Latin American Spanish, from Aymara chullpa
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How to use chulpa in a sentence
Another variety (the chulpa) was really a stone tower erected above ground, twelve to thirty feet high.
The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West | Robert E. AndersonThe great mass of a chulpa is solid, but within is a dome-shaped chamber, into which the opening seen in the cut leads.
The Prehistoric World | E. A. Allen
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