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Multi-periodSite Name: Potrero de Payogasta Alternative Name: Cerro Kawsay (Hill of Life)
Country: Argentina
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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Salta
Latitude: 24.828S  Longitude: 66.044W
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Potrero de Payogasta
Potrero de Payogasta submitted by bat400 : The kallanka wall at Potrero de Payogasta Site in Salta Province, Argentina Image copyright: Crazy Rabbit Run (Grey Rabbit), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
An Inka administrative town in Salta Province, dating to the first half of the 15th C AD as an initial building episode, with a later town built in the mid to 2nd half of that century (1460-70 AD) (carbon dates per D'Altroy.) It is the ruins of this second town which are seen today.

Features include the highest standing ruins in Argentina of a kallanka, a rectangular gabled hall situated on a plaza with large frequent doorways to let in light, and two circular walls. (These features are easily seen on Google maps.) The site covers about 9 ha.

The town is sited on the Rio Potrero, and in addition to this Inka element, the river valley was inhabited for at least 400 years, and multiple cultures, prior to the Inka incorporation of the people of this valley into their empire. Elements of these earlier cultures can be seen in the recently documented petroglyphs in the area. Located on a notable hill, dubbed Cerro Kawsay (the Hill of Life,) there are over 300 figures, the majority of them depicting llamas.

The location given is for the Inka ruins.

Sources:
Terence D'Altroy, Veronica Williams, Ana Marie Lorandi, "The Inka in the Southlands,"
Variations in the Expression of Inka Power: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 1997, editor Joanne Pillsbury, 2007.
Gordon F. McEwan, The Incas: New Perspectives, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.

Note: Mexican archaeologists document petroglyphs in northeast Argentina.
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Mexican archaeologists study cave paintings found in the northeast Argentina by bat400 on Saturday, 18 January 2014
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A hill in the northeast part of Argentina that holds various cave paintings, which was considered to be a sacred place before the Incan conquest of the region in the XV century, was identified by Mexican investigator Luis Alberto Martos Lopez (National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)), as part of an archaeological excavation.

The exploration of this area is within a much wider project destined to the excavation and restoration of the Incan site known as Potrero de Payogasta, in the wide and contrasting Valle Calchaquí, in Argentina; this is an initiative which has been supported by the Cultural Patrimony of the Salta province. Also, this Project is funded by the National Geographic Society.

In a recent journey through the site’s area, which is located to the north of Valle Calchaquí, Luis Alberto Martos was lead by Guillermo Colque —owner of an estate in the area— to a low hill about 100 meters tall, 1.6 km west of Rio Potrero, with a great quantity of petroglyphs. “We registered a total of 88 outcrops (rocks with petroglyphs), 70 in the hill and the rest in the continuous hillsides. More than 60 are found in groups and about twenty are isolated”, said the Investigator of the Archaeological Studies Direction of INAH.

Cerro Kawsay (“Hill of life”, in Quechua), as it has been named, referred to what seems to have been a sacred place since early times, between 900 and 1000 A.D, although there is a possibility it could be from the Formative period (500 A.D) and that the site was sacred for hunters and collectors.

The most interesting fact about these manifestations is that from 329 chiseled or carved figures, 267 are zoomorphic and almost all correspond to representations of llamas, an animal that is linked to the origin myths of the Inca people and other civilizations prior to this empire.

Martos Lopez pointed out that the petroglyphs from Cerro Kawsay, “emphasize the predominant representation of llamas; they are seen individually and in groups, strong and healthy, sometimes pregnant. There are some series that allude to their own natural processes, representing their youth, maturity, pregnant and giving birth. The llama is important to Andean towns, particularly the Inca, because it personifies the children of Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo (the mythic founders of the empire).

Their significance —as well as using their meat for food, wool and as a beast of burden, did not go unnoticed by the Spaniards that arrived in the XVI century, Luis Alberto Martos detailed. In this sense, he said, it’s likely that the Kawsay hill, recently registered as an archaeological site, “was used for ceremonies. It was considered a sacred place where rituals related to fertility, abundance, prosperity and life took place”.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see artdaily.com
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