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<< Text Pages >> Huaca la Puertenciaria de la Meseta - Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 20 January 2007  Page Views: 4314

Multi-periodSite Name: Huaca la Puertenciaria de la Meseta Alternative Name: The Penitentiary
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 166.087 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 6.233S  Longitude: 77.873W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
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
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Huaca la Puertenciaria de la Meseta, Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru.
Massive stone and earth platforms and the stone buildings they support stand around a plaza of 300ft by 200 ft. Decorative motifs indicate that this was built by the Chachapoyas culture.

However, tthe location is farther east and outside of the "cloud forests" where other Chachapoyas sites lie.

The location given is for Chachapoyas, the principal town in the region, not for the recent discovery. As more information becomes available, an accurate location will be supplied,


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Massive Ruin offers clue to Vanished Peruvian Culture by bat400 on Saturday, 20 January 2007
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A massive ruin offers fresh clues about the culture of Peru's vanished Chachapoya, the "cloud warriors" who battled the Inca Empire more than 500 years ago. The Chachapoya (cha-cha-POY-ah) were once rulers of the northern Andes. Aside from cliff tombs and stone houses, they have left archaeologists few large ruins to study.

Until now.

The ruin was first discovered in August by Peruvians, four local men, who live in the remote, heavily forested area. They got in touch with Keith Muscutt, a scholar and author they knew because he has explored the region for three decades and is godfather to some of their children. Muscutt, an expert on the Chachapoya, is the author of 1998's Warrior of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru.


"I was shown to what seems likely the biggest free-standing Chachapoya structure in the world, and just about in the last place I would ever expect it," says Muscutt, an assistant dean at the University of California-Santa Cruz, who described the site last week at the Institute of Andean Studies meeting in Berkeley, Calif.

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