chulpa

or chull·pa

[ chool-puh ]

noun

, Archaeology.

1. a type of prehistoric stone tower, found in Brazil and Peru, having living quarters over a burial chamber.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chulpa¹

First recorded in 1865–70; from Latin American Spanish, from Aymara chullpa

Example Sentences

Another variety (the chulpa) was really a stone tower erected above ground, twelve to thirty feet high.

From Project Gutenberg

The great mass of a chulpa is solid, but within is a dome-shaped chamber, into which the opening seen in the cut leads.

From Project Gutenberg