Megalithic Portal: Latest from Peru

Cerro del Gentil

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:37:55 GMT

. Pyramid / Mastaba in Peru

Kuelap Citadel

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:47:02 GMT

]]>More superb archive photos. Ancient Village in Amazonas State, Peru. A large worked-stone settlement of approximately 400 buildings, all within an encircling stone wall as much as 66 feet high. Many of the round stone houses display a zig-zag and diamond decorations in stone. Excavations are still on-going, but some of the buildings have been reconstructed with roof poles and thatch.

�usta Hispana

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:19:36 GMT

]]>. Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Peru

Nazca Lines

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:24:51 GMT

]]>Clive Ruggles and Nicholas J. Saunders: Desert labyrinth: lines, landscape and meaning at Nazca, Peru. See comment.. Geoglyphs in Ica State, Peru. The Nazca culture (200BC - 700AD) created large figures in the desert floor. Many can only be seen from the air. The lines were made by removing stones and pebbles coated with iron oxide (sometimes called "desert varnish") to reveal a lighter colored layer of ground beneath.

Gran Vilaya / Rabantu

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:02:18 GMT

]]>. Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru Gran Vilaya is a complex of many archaeological remains and ruins, spread over a wide area in the Utcubamba Valley in northern Peru.

Chotuna-Chornancap

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:01:43 GMT

]]>Discoveries of a 'priestess' and 'underwater' tombs burial decked in symbols of water and the sea. See Comment.. A complex of Flat-topped adobe Pyramids, tombs, and temples in Lambayeque, Peru. The Huaca Chotuna brick pyramid is part of a complex that includes walled compounds, and adobe buildings with plastered walls that show the remains of frescos and bas reliefs of stylized figures. Another pyramid on the site, Huaca Norta, contained sacrificial victims.

Guitarrero Cave

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:21:11 GMT

]]>Carbon dating identifies South America's oldest textiles. Cave in the Ancash Region of Peru. One of the earliest human habitation sites in South America dating from approximately 10,000 years BC. The earliest textiles and some of the earliest domesticated plants in South America have been found here.

Tompullo 2

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:57:21 GMT

]]>Ancient DNA reveals kinship burial patterns of a pre-Columbian Andean community . Ancient Settlement in Arequipa.This Late Horizon (15-16C, Inka) was occupied for only few generations. The site consists of the remains of a kallanka (a large gabled hall of one room with multiple entrances,) smaller home sites, oval enclosures (interpretted as llama and alpacha pens,) and ten chullpas (stone above ground tombs.)

Marcahuamachuco

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:04:44 GMT

]]>Collection of 10 Metal Figurines, Ornamental Objects: Offerings Made at Construction. See comment.. Marcahuamachuco is a site of Pre-Incan ruins in the La Libertad Region of Peru. Before being conquered by the Incas, Marcahuamachuco was known as Peru's most important political, economic and military center.

Intipata

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:36:52 GMT

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