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<< Text Pages >> Cahuachi - Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 14 November 2009  Page Views: 8653

Multi-periodSite Name: Cahuachi
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 42.698 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Nasca  Nearest Village: La Yapana
Latitude: 14.8176S  Longitude: 75.117W
Condition:
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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
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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 Ceremonial Center in Ica State, Peru.
This city in the Nazca Valley was a ceremonial center for the Nasca Culture (3000 BC - 1000 AD). No homes or food storage or preparation sites have been found so far within the 24 square kilometer "city". It's height of influence was around 2000 years ago.

Pyramids and public buildings have been found in addition to charnel houses. Also in the area are part of the impressive underground aqueduct system the Nasca used to support intensive agriculture. Some of these aqueducts are still used today.
The largest pyramid on the site is 25 m high and 100 m long. It is a natural hill topped with multiple layers of adobe brick, built, added to and revised over the years of use.
The location is general for the site. The linked google map shows the impressive layout of mostly unexcavated buildings. The site can be reached by taxi or car. It is a 40 minute drive from Nasca.

Note: Tomb discovered of an elite child dating to the early Nasca Period. With the mummy were various pieces of jewelery made from gold, silver and precious stones.
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Priestess of Cahuachi: Tomb discovered of an elite child; with gold, silver, gems. by bat400 on Saturday, 14 November 2009
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Paying for a guardian out of his own pocket for 27 years turned out to be worth it for the Italian archaeologists Giuseppe Orefici, director of the Nasca Project. Not reimbursed by his supervisors in Italy nor (shamefully but all too predictably) by the Peruvian state, it is thanks to the Italian’s dedication at the heavily tomb-raided ceremonial city of Cahuachi, a expansive adobe city of countless buried pyramids, that a recent discovery was able to be made.

Discovered in a recent dig was the mummy of a young priestess, a member of the elite, with several precious items dating from the period of 300-450A.D., the most important period at what, if unburied, is said to be the world’s largest adobe city.

According to Orefici, the girl must have been important. She would have been between 12 and 14 at her time of death and was found inside a series of rooms between the Great Pyramid and what is known as the Orange Pyramid. The building would have formed a small temple that had 4 columns holding up its roof.

The archaeologists had to remove a layer or reeds and ropes that covered the burial. The body appeared to have been painted and found with an additional vertebra added. She also had slightly deformed forearms, apparently something self-inflicted by having the arms extended vertically for long periods of time – perhaps as a result of a praying. She was wrapped in finely woven fabric that had patterns of orcas (killer whales) found in the southern pacific and contained obsidian arrow heads.

Although there is much to discover about the supposed priestess, researchers have begun the journey decipher the meaning of the burial objects.

The find has been taken to the city of Nazca where it is being studied by anthropologist and physicist Andrea Drusini from the University of Padua.

Meanwhile, Oferici will continue to pay the guardian of the site himself, the only way to guarantee the preservation of the temples where most probably more spectacular finds will be made – by archaeologists, not by tomb-robbers.

For more, including descriptions of grave goods, see enperublog.com.
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Ancient Peru Pyramid near Nasca Site Spotted by Satellite by bat400 on Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.

Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy's National Research Council (CNR) discovered the pyramid by analyzing images from the satellite Quickbird, which they used to penetrate the Peruvian soil.

The researchers investigated a test area along the river Nazca. Covered by plants and grass, it was about a mile away from Cahuachi's archaeological site, which contains the remains of what is believed to be the world's biggest mud city.

Via Quickbird, Masini and colleagues collected hi-resolution infrared and multispectral images. After the researchers optimized the images with special algorithms, the result was a detailed visualization of a pyramid extending over a 9,000-square-meter area.

The discovery doesn't come as a surprise to archaeologists, since some 40 mounds at Cahuachi are believed to contain the remains of important structures.

"We know that many buildings are still buried under Cahuachi's sands, but until now, it was almost impossible to exactly locate them and detect their shape from an aerial view," Masini told Discovery News.



For more, see Discovery News.
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    The story above was submitted by coldrum by bat400 on Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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    The story above was submitted by coldrum.

    The newly discovered pyramid lies a mile away from the Cahuachi site.
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