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<< Our Photo Pages >> Chavín de Huantar - Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

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Multi-periodSite Name: Chavín de Huantar Alternative Name: Chavin de Huantar
Country: Peru Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 9.592775S  Longitude: 77.178453W
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Chavín de Huantar submitted by sophs74 : Tunnels inside the pyramid at Chavin de Huantar, Huaraz, Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Peru. Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts constructed beginning about 850 BCE and occupied to about 300 BCE by the Chavín, a major pre-Inca culture.

The site is located 250 kilometers (160 mi) north of Lima, Peru, at an elevation of 3,200 meters (10,500 ft), east of the Cordillera Blanca at the start of the Conchucos Valley. Chavín de Huántar has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some of the Chavín relics from this archaeological site are on display in the Museo de la Nación and the Museo Nacional de Chavín in Lima.

Chavín de Huántar has been carbon dated to 850 BCE. While the fairly large population was based on an agricultural economy, the city's location at the headwaters of the Marañón River, between the coast and the jungle, made it an ideal location for the dissemination and collection of both ideas and material goods. This archeological site is a large ceremonial center that has revealed a great deal about the Chavín culture. Chavín de Huántar served as a gathering place for people of the region to come together and worship. The transformation of the center into a valley-dominating monument had a complex effect; it became a pan-regional place of importance. People went to Chavin de Huantar as a center: to attend and participate in rituals, consult an oracle, or enter a cult

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by sophs74 : Lanzón Stela at Chavín de Huantar, Huaraz, Peru Site in Peru (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by sophs74 : Pyramid at Chavin de Huantar, Huaraz, Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Chavin de Huantar Site in Peru Image copyright: Fanny & Greg (Fanny & Greg), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by sophs74 : Iconic carved stone head on the walls of the pyramid at Chavin de Huantar, Huaraz, Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Chavín de Huantar Site in Peru Image copyright: alisetter (alicia ortego), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Chavi Site in Peru Image copyright: rowan545 (Rowan Millar), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Chavin Carving Site in Peru Chavin de Huantar, Peru. Image copyright: g e c k t r e k (g e c k t r e k), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Cabeza clava de Chavín de Huántar Site in Peru Imágenes de las ruinas de Chavín, en Ancash, Perú. Cultura en donde segun dicen nació el culto a la Pachamama, existió entre los 1200 al 200 AC Única cabeza clava que queda colocada en su lugar original Image copyright: emeterio.celedonio, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Chavin de Huantar Site in Peru Der letzte Kopf am Originalplatz an der Tempelanlage von Chavin de Huántar Image copyright: Martin Germann (Martin Germann), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Andy B : Site in Peru Rocas Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Laser scanning Site in Peru Rocas Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Site in Peru Vents that caused a loud roaring sound when hundreds (or possibly thousands) of gallons of water were poured into the underground channel. The purpose was to create a sense of "aw" and wonder and power by the priests. Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Chavín de Huántar Site in Peru Image copyright: tacowitte, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Excavation units. Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Wide angle. Site in Peru Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Laser scanning. Site in Peru Rocas Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Site in Peru Rocas Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Site in Peru A staircase, but to where? Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : Site in Peru The Stanford students did all the hard work. Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar submitted by Flickr : The main plaza from atop Building A. Image copyright: Amen-Ra (Justin Barton), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Chavín de Huantar Spatial Data by Andy B on Thursday, 02 April 2020
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Chavín de Huantar Spatial Data
https://openheritage3d.org/project.php?id=w54r-pb82

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https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/VwLyaBwv7bFPKA

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Talk: Whalebones brought to Mountain Tops, 2nd December, Sanford Museum, Iowa by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 September 2015
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2nd December talk for the Northwest Chapter of the Iowa Archeological Society
Whalebones brought to Mountain Tops: A story of research and production at a 3,000 year old temple in the Andes

Dr. Matthew Sayre, professor from the University of South Dakota, will be presenting on his archaeological finds in Peru.

http://sanfordmuseum.org/nwias.htm

Dr. Matthew Sayre is an anthropologist and archaeologist who primarily works at the site of Chavin de Huantar in the Peruvian Andes." My work focuses on the ecological, agricultural, economic, and ritual practices of Andean peoples. "
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Pre-Incan Rituals used conches, possibly for creating music? by Andy B on Monday, 27 February 2012
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The "acoustic musicians" of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics help archaeologists unravel the mysteries of the pre-Incan Chavín temple complex -- and the ritual role given to the conch.



More ancient acoustic research at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Vancouver, British Columbia - Scientists revive sacred sounds
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/16/10426123-scientists-revive-sacred-sounds
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Ancient trumpets played eerie notes by Andy B on Sunday, 21 November 2010
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Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid’s hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans used these trumpets 3,000 years ago. The well-preserved, ornately decorated shells found at a pre-Inca religious site in Peru offered researchers a rare opportunity to jam on primeval instruments.

The music, powerfully haunting and droning, could have been used in religious ceremonies, the scientists say. The team reported their analysis November 17 at the Second Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics in Cancun, Mexico.

“You can really feel it in your chest,” says Jonathan Abel, an acoustician at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. “It has a rough texture like a tonal animal roar.”

Archaeologists had unearthed 20 complete Strombus galeatus marine shell trumpets in 2001 at Chavín de Huántar, an ancient ceremonial center in the Andes. Polished, painted and etched with symbols, the shells had well-formed mouthpieces and distinct V-shaped cuts. The cuts may have been used as a rest for the player’s thumb, says study coauthor Perry Cook, a computer scientist at Princeton University and avid shell musician, or to allow the player to see over the instrument while walking.

To record the tunes and understand the acoustic context in which the instruments, called pututus, were played, the researchers traveled to Chavín.

As an expert shell musician blew into the horn, researchers recorded the sound’s path via four tiny microphones placed inside the player’s mouth, the shell’s mouthpiece, the shell’s main body and at the shell’s large opening, or bell. Similar to a bugle, the instruments only sound one or two tones, but like a French horn, the pitch changes when the player plunges his hand into the bell.

The team used signal-processing software to characterize the acoustic properties of each trumpet. Following the sound’s path made it possible to reconstruct the ancient shell’s interior, a feat that normally involves sawing the shell apart or zapping it with X-rays.

The researchers also wanted to know how the site’s ceremonial chamber, a stone labyrinth with sharply twisting corridors and ventilation shafts, changed the trumpet’s sound. To find out, the team arranged six microphones around the musician and reconstructed the sound patterns on a computer.

If the trumpets were played inside the stone chamber in which they were found, the drone would have sounded like it was coming from several different directions at once. In the dimly lit religious center, that could have created a sense of confusion, Abel says.

“Were they used to scare people while they were there?” asks Abel. “There are still a lot of things left open.”

Turns out, such questions about how sounds affect people and their behavior, an area called psychoacoustics, can be tested. It's a field of active research, and not just for ancient civilizations: Another group at Stanford is now studying how a room’s acoustics affects human behavior. In one recent experiment, researchers separated test subjects into different acoustic environments to do a simple task — ladling water from one bucket to another in a dimly lit room.

“What your ear can actually hear plays into how you would behave, or the psychological experience in the situation,” says Abel.

Photos and sounds at Science News

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    Ancients played acoustic mind tricks by bat400 on Sunday, 21 November 2010
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    Also from coldrum, an article on research from the same symposium --

    Researchers say ancient civilizations built temples to frighten worshipers with scary sound effects, light shows and even drug-induced psychedelic trips. Acoustic archaeologists have revealed new information on using sound effects as entertainment, religion and a form of political control in ancient cultures.

    Studying the 3,000 year-old Chavin culture in Peru, scientists discovered a maze of underground tunnels, drains and hallways with different acoustic environments.

    "The structures could be physically disorienting and the acoustic environment is very different than the natural world," said Miriam Kolar of Stanford University's Center for Computer Research and Acoustics.

    Ancient Chavin drawings also show that they were fascinated with sensory experiences, DiscoveryNews reported.

    "The iconography shows people mixed with animal features in altered states of being," said Kolar. "There is peyote and mucus trails out of the nose indicative of people using psychoactive plant substances. They were taking drugs and having a hallucinogenic experience."

    The mazes also include air ducts that use sunlight to produce distorted shadows of the people walking in them. Giant marine shells were found in the maze in 2001 which researchers believe were used to create creepy sound.

    For more, see http://www.presstv.ir and this article.
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    Haunting Sounds at an Ancient Peruvian Site by bat400 on Friday, 09 March 2012
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    Another article from coldrum about Miriam Kolar's (Stanford University, Palo Alto, California) accoustic research at Chavín de Huantar.
    More than 3 millennia ago, ancient people flocked to Chavín de Huantar, a village in a high valley in the Peruvian Andes, to hear the oracles speak. And indeed they spoke—in the voice of resonant conch shell trumpets, and with the help of some clever architectural design, according to findings presented here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW). The research suggests that the Chavín culture—and perhaps other ancient cultures—knew acoustic tricks that might be the envy of a modern concert hall engineer.

    Chavín de Huantar is particularly well suited to the study of ancient uses of sound, says Miriam Kolar, an archeoacoustics researcher at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. That’s because the interior architecture contains elaborate, multilevel mazes with long corridors and staircases that affect acoustics today and are well enough preserved to detect what the original residents must have heard. What’s more, ancient conch shell trumpets have been excavated in the village; when blown into, the shells make a haunting, warbling sound, and fossil conch shells are embedded in stones on the floor of the temple. Kolar played a recording of the conch shell trumpet at the meeting. “It’s not very imposing over loudspeakers,” she said. “But in person it rattles your bones.”

    To test the idea that the builders of the temple had a sophisticated understanding of acoustics, Kolar and her colleagues placed archeological staff—professors, graduate students, or their Peruvian colleagues—at different locations in the narrow, mazelike passageways inside the temple, played sounds from loudspeakers located at various points in the maze, and asked the volunteers where the sound was coming from. The design of the maze misled people about the true location of the sound source, which may have added to the numinous atmosphere the builders intended. These results added more evidence that the ceremonial center at Chauvin de Huantar was designed with acoustics in mind.

    “She has good evidence to show that [the acoustic design] was purposefully done, says Steven Waller, an independent scholar in La Mesa, California, who has investigated the acoustics of ancient ceremonial caves, and who presented evidence at the session showing that Stonehenge and other stone circles in the British Isles were designed with acoustics in mind. What the results do, he adds, “is show that all archeological sites have the potential for acoustic effects, so we should preserve soundscapes of these sites in case they’re important.”

    For more, see news.sciencemag.org.
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