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Submitted by davidmorgan on Saturday, 21 September 2019  Page Views: 3410

Multi-periodSite Name: Vichama
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 8.228 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Vegueta
Latitude: 11.0255S  Longitude: 77.633388W
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bat400 visited on 31st Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Vichama differs from Caral and Banduria by the pictorial reliefs that have been found on several walls of elite residencies and ceremonial sites. The largest of these are easily seen at the primary site which included both a a large circular courtyard with ceremonial building over looking it. There are two walls depicting figures. Many of these appear to be starving figures, while others may be either be in the midst of some sort of exclamation or dance. The starving figures point to sunken abdomens or skeletal remains, but ts difficult to be certain if the other figures depict mournful grief or happy rejoicing. In 2018 another, smaller wall of even more abstract figures, including snakes and faces was found. This wall has not been stabilized and was covered when we visited.

Vichama
Vichama submitted by bat400 : Site in Lima Region, Peru. La Hornacinas (The Niches), the principal building in sector A. This relief decorates an interior room, and is thought to be part of the second building phase. There are two rows of figures which are interpreted to be children on various conditions: starving, dead, healthy and happy. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Lima Region, Peru. A coastal town of the Chico Norte or Caral-Supe culture. It was roughly contemporary to Caral but the major building episodes are later than those at Caral. Described as a farming and fishing town.

A large principal stepped pyramid is at the northern portion of the site. It, like other large public buildings here, is built from adobe and stone and uses "shicras" for fill. These were woven bags or baskets containing many rough relatively small stones. This construction method was common to multiple sites in this culture and it is believed this method made the stepped pyramids resilient to the earthquakes common on the west coast of South America. As Vichama is still under active excavation, these shicras are easy to see.
Vichama is notable for mud clay reliefs sculpted into the platforms of the principal pyramid and other public ceremonial buildings. Such building decorations are not known from other Caral-Supe sites, but are used in much later cultures (Chimu, Moche) in western Peru.

The site is rapidly being brought to the same level of access and modern facilities seen at Caral.

More information at the Peru Ministry of Culture website (in Spanish).

Note: More figurative mural sculptures revealed. Rare reliefs depict life and death at 3800 year old Peruvean site.
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Vichama
Vichama submitted by bat400 : Site in Lima Region, Peru. La Hornacinas (The Niches), the principal building in sector A. A relief thought to be a frog and lightning, possibly symbolizing rebirth. This is the highest relief art in the building complex and part of the penultimate building phases. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vichama
Vichama submitted by bat400 : Site in Lima Region, Peru. La Hornacinas (The Niches), the principal building in sector A. In this view, you're looking at the core of the building and the last phase of building. The wall reliefs of Vichama are not seen at earlier Chico Norte culture sites. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vichama
Vichama submitted by bat400 : Site in Lima Region, Peru. La Hornacinas (The Niches), the principal building in sector A. In this view, you're looking at a circular plaza in the foreground, and the a second building phase, a wall niches, behind it. Unlike the earlier Caral and Bandurria, the largest part of construction is of adobe and not stone, although shicras are used as fill. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vichama
Vichama submitted by bat400 : Site in Lima Region, Peru. De Los Depositos (the Deposits Building), sector K. This building started out As a ceremonial site with two large rectangular rooms. Later a circular plaza replaced one of the rooms. Later still, the entire site was repurposed as elite residences. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vichama
Vichama submitted by bat400 : Site in Lima Region, Peru. La Hornacinas (The Niches), the principal building in sector A. Shicras are used as fill in between outer walls. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018.

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Re: Vichama by Wasil on Tuesday, 24 September 2019
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thank you for this
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Toad Mural Unearthed in Peru by bat400 on Saturday, 21 September 2019
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A short BBC news item date 20 August 2019:

"The wall, unveiled on Monday, was found inside a public ceremonial building at the Vichama site, north of Lima.

"The complex carved scene depicts iconography including a human-like toad and representations of people.

"Dr Ruth Shady Solís, director of the Caral Archaeological Zone (ZAC), believes the scene represents the "arrival of water" through rainfall.
She says that in Andean civilisation, toads represented water and says the face below it represents humans waiting for rainfall to give continuity of life.

"Another depiction found nearby shows four human heads with snakes encircling them and what appears to be a seed with a face.

"Researchers said the sculptures would probably have been produced in a period of scarcity and famine.
Tatiana Abad, another archaeologist at the site, said at a news conference on Monday the carving represented a time of "crisis" for the people living there."

For more, and a photo of the bas relief mural of the anthropomorphic toad, see Mural from 3,800 years ago unveiled by Peru archaeologists If the newly presented mural is nearby the one of faces and "fertility motifs" presented last spring, then it lies in De Los Depositos (the Deposits Building), in sector K of the site. This building started out As a ceremonial site with two large rectangular rooms. Later a circular plaza replaced one of the rooms. Later still, the entire site was repurposed as elite residences.
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Re: Archaeologists unearth 3,800-year-old wall relief in Peru by TheCaptain on Saturday, 30 March 2019
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thoughts of Kilpeck !
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Archaeologists unearth 3,800-year-old wall relief in Peru by bat400 on Saturday, 30 March 2019
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Wall carvings were found in what was once a fishing city of the Caral civilization, the oldest in the Americas. The relief is thought to symbolize a period of drought and famine brought on by climate change.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient wall relief in Peru, belonging to the oldest civilizations in the Americas, news agency Andina reported on Thursday. The wall is approximately 3,800 years old and portrays snakes and human heads.

One meter (3.2 feet) high and 2.8 meters long, the wall relief was discovered in the sea-side archaeological site of Vichama, 110 kilometers (68 miles) north of Peru's capital, Lima.

For photos see this limited story at DW.com.
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