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chulpa

or chull·pa

[ chool-puh ]

/ ˈtʃul pə /

noun Archaeology.

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

Origin of chulpa

< American Spanish < Aymara chullpa

Words nearby chulpa

chukker, chukotian, chula vista, chuleta, chulo, chulpa, chulym, chum, chum salmon, chuman, chumash

Example sentences from the Web for chulpa

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. Anderson
The 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