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Multi-periodSite Name: Cerro BaulCountry: Peru
NOTE: This site is 99.808 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Latitude: 17.11211S Longitude: 70.85881W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru.
Cerro Baul is a fortified mesa, 2000 feet above its surroundings, with settlement on the cliff tops themselves and in the immediate surroundings. Among other finds are the remnants of a brewery and large buildings that may have been used for ceremonial feasting. There is evidence of damage that has been interpreted as a careful and deliberate destruction of several buildings prior to the mesa's being vacated.
Cerro Baul may have been an expansion colony in an area of local conflict and resistance judging from the remains of fortifications. It was abandoned in ~700AD possible due to conflict with the rival Tiwanaku.
The Wari (Huari) culture of Peru (~400AD - 1000AD) was one of several Andean cultures before the rise of the Inca that can be termed "empires." They were not just city states, but actually exerted their influence over neighboring groups (or subjugated them.) The Wari area of influence lay in what is now the central highlands of Peru and their area of influence overlapped that of another culture, the Tiwanaku.
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Note: See the article on the ancient brewery and women who tended it.
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