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Multi-periodSite Name: Jaén Temples Alternative Name: Monte Grande
Country: Peru Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Jaén, Cajamarca
Latitude: 5.71584S  Longitude: 78.793791W
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
2 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.
4 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
0no data
4

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Jaén Temples
Jaén Temples submitted by Flickr : Huacas en Montegrande, Jaén, Cajamarca, Perú. Las huacas poseen personalidad propia y forman parte de los panteones locales de las culturas incaica y pre-incaicas peruanas junto con las demás divinidades "andinas mayores" (como Viracocha, Pacha Kamaq o Pariacaca). Image copyright: Marc Hors (Marc Hors), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Pre-Bracamoros culture ceremonial sites in Cajamarca, Peru. Circular buildings with burial vaults, and semi circular walls of mortar and stones weighing up to 200 kg. The sites are estimated to have been used over an 800 year period, and may date to 2000BC.

Note: Connecting Two Realms - Archaeologists rethink the early civilizations of the Amazon
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Jaén Temples
Jaén Temples submitted by Flickr : Huacas en Montegrande, Jaén, Cajamarca, Perú. Las huacas poseen personalidad propia y forman parte de los panteones locales de las culturas incaica y pre-incaicas peruanas junto con las demás divinidades "andinas mayores" (como Viracocha, Pacha Kamaq o Pariacaca). Image copyright: Marc Hors (Marc Hors), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jaén Temples
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Connecting Two Realms - Archaeologists rethink the early civilizations of the Amazon by Andy B on Saturday, 17 June 2017
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The Amazon jungle wasn’t supposed to have been the site of something this big. The mound, known locally as Montegrande, spans more than two acres at its base and stands as tall as a five-story building. It sits today amid rice paddies and cow pastures outside the Peruvian city of Jaén. Although it was overgrown with bushes and taken for a natural hill by people living nearby, the few archaeologists who had ventured to this remote corner of the western Amazon basin could not ignore the fact that it bore the features of an ancient burial mound: It had steep sides and a round shape, and there are no other hills around it.

When archaeologist Quirino Olivera began excavating Montegrande (“big hill”) in 2010, he discovered that it was not only bigger, but also much older, than anyone had imagined. Once the vegetation had been cleared, he found pottery from a 1,000-year span of history near the surface. But just a few feet down, the ceramics disappeared, and Olivera began seeing evidence of architecture on an enormous scale. He uncovered sections of a long, semicircular wall, nine feet tall and coated in beige plaster, that was reached by a staircase made of boulders and packed earth.

Later digging seasons, in 2012 and 2016, revealed a wide platform on the mound’s eastern side that would have faced the rising sun. The depth and form of the structure and the absence of ceramics signaled that the mound dates from the late preceramic era, some 3,000 years ago. It could only have been built by an organized, complex society with hierarchies of workers and an agricultural scheme robust enough to feed them.

More at
http://www.archaeology.org/issues/266-1707/letter-from/5653-letter-from-peru-spiral-temples

With thanks to Roy for the link
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Peru rewrites history books once more with ancient archaeological find by bat400 on Thursday, 23 September 2010
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Submitted by coldrum -- Over four decades, the Hermógenes Mejía Solf museum in Jaén, Cajamarca, an area of northern Peru where the Andes start descending into the Amazon, has displayed more than 3000 fossils, items of pottery and stone objects, all of mysterious beauty from cultures of the ancient Amazonia. Locals have always been amazed by the diversity of items found, though had no idea of their history.

The only attempt to clear things up came from Gamonal Ulises Guevara, a noted librarian that since 1971 has attempted the difficult task of organising the collection, much of which is without context – first found by looters, then sold to collectors who went on to donate to the museum.

Gamonal knew that behind the items, that didn’t all seem to come from the same time and place, there was a page of history waiting to be read – and with the help of archaeologist Quirino Olivera, since May of this year, that missing page has started to be revealed.



Less than 10 minutes from the center of Jaén, a group of researchers supported by residents unearthered two temples, which according to early indications, belong to a culture that could be as much as 4000 years old and would have been the ancestors of the Bracamoros culture, who straddled the present-day Peru-Ecuador border.

The team was surprised by the technique used to decorate the walls with different color mud, and because the 8 phases of construction were in perfect alignment.

In the temples there have been found snail and spondylus shells, indicating the the civilisation had contact with people in Peru’s Amazon and with the Ecuadorian coast.

The excavations were carried out under an integration program between Peru and Ecuador, which includes the basins of the rivers in May, Chinchipe, Marañón, Utcubamba and Puyango-Tumbes.



For more, see enperublog.com.
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Ceremonial Temples 4,000 Years Old Found in Peru by bat400 on Wednesday, 22 September 2010
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Submitted by coldrum --

A team of Peruvian archaeologists have discovered two ceremonial temples more than 4,000 years old in Peru’s northern jungle, which makes them the most ancient in the country and identifies them with the Bracamoros culture, the daily El Comercio said on Saturday.

On both sites were found 14 burial vaults that typically contain the skeletons of newborns and adolescents placed there as offerings at different times in the course of the 800 years these buildings were in use, the newspaper said.

The Bracamoros culture occupied part of the current Ecuadorian province of Zamora Chinchipe and the Peruvian regions of Amazonas and Cajamarca, where the temples were found, the daily said.

As the work was getting started in May, experts found large semicircular walls built with a mixture of mortar and stones weighing 200 kilos (440 pounds).

The perfectly aligned walls were built in eight phases of construction and were decorated with an early fresco technique, El Comercio said.

Olivera told the newspaper that “we are standing before one of the first civilizations of Peru.”

“If we keep digging, we could find vestiges preceding the Chavin (1,000 B.C.), Caral (3,000 B.C.) and Ventarron (4,000 B.C.) cultures, since neither in the Andes nor on the coast have temples been found that are this ancient or with these characteristics,” he said.

For more, see Latin American Herald Tribune.
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