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<< Text Pages >> Cerro Baul - Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

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Multi-periodSite Name: Cerro Baul
Country: 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:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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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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Re: Cerro Baul by Anonymous on Tuesday, 06 March 2007
thanks for the peruvian cultural sites, this has long been an area of interest since the coastal peruvians began their cotton production and history of textiles to which they are quite famous.
exploiting marine sources was a key and whatever possessed the peruvians moving inland to start public monumental architecture is still to be known.
a good friend of mine is actually a long time descendent of the jivaro which brings about the rest of the story.
cheers
iceman
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Ancient Brewery Tended by Elite Female Brewmeisters by bat400 on Monday, 05 February 2007
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"If the ancient mountaintop city in southern Peru was the vanished Wari empire’s unique imperial showplace, the brewery was its piece de resistance.

"This one of the shawl pins found on the floor of a 1,000-year-old brewery built by the Wari empire high in the Andes mountains of Peru. The finding suggests the brewers who made the brew -- based on a pepper tree berry and known today as chicha -- were wealthy women of the highest social class.

"Outfitted with fire pits and large stones that supported huge ceramic vats, it had the capacity to churn out weekly batches of hundreds of gallons of brew – a highly impractical alcoholic delicacy, given the city’s perch thousands of feet above the nearest water source.

Archaeologists from the University of Florida and The Field Museum in Chicago last year announced that the 1,000-year-old industrial scale brewery, built by the largest empire to predate the Inca, appeared to be the oldest in the Andes mountains. In a paper to appear next week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they make public another noteworthy discovery: At least 10 elegant metal shawl pins on the brewery floor.

"The finding suggests the brewers who made the brew — based on a pepper tree berry and known today as chicha — were wealthy women of the highest social class. "

The discovery of the shawl pins is one of numerous new and expanded findings presented in the paper, an overview of more than a decade of research and analysis. Others include the most detailed description yet of the Wari’s ritualized destruction of key buildings in the city in the days and hours before they mysteriously abandoned it. "

See Science Daily for more on the papers presented on this site.

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