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Rock ArtSite Name: Toro Muerto Petroglyphs Alternative Name: Petroglifos de Toro Muerto
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 89.991 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Corire
Latitude: 16.22446S  Longitude: 72.502W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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SolarMegalith visited on 1st Jul 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Atmosphere I have never experienced before ... remote valley and petroglyphs in volcanic rocks.

Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Toro Muerto Petroglyphs submitted by SolarMegalith : Site in Peru: Toro Muerto Petroglyphs. The site has wonderful ambience, I felt like on the surface of the moon here. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Peru.
The famous Toro Muerto petroglyphs are located not far from the town Corire in province Arequipa. The deserted valley is covered with tons of stones - on many of them you can find the petroglyphs.

The site was discovered to science in 1951, some sources claim that there are even 4000 rocks with petroglyphs here, but this number is certainly exaggerated. Still the pertoglyphs are really impressive - you can recognize various symbols here, mainly geometric ones and pictures of animals like lama or various birds. Most of the petroglyphs were carved in volcanic rock.

Note: Accompanying Science Daily article on Latin American rock art motifs.
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Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Toro Muerto Petroglyphs submitted by SolarMegalith : Animal representation - probably llama, a very important animal in Pre-Colombian culture (photo taken in 2005). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Toro Muerto Petroglyphs submitted by SolarMegalith : Toro Muerto petroglyphs are located in beautiful valley near Arequipa (photo taken in 2005). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Toro Muerto Petroglyphs submitted by SolarMegalith : Toro Muerto petroglyphs - they were carved between 700 and 800 AD (photo taken in 2005). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Toro Muerto Petroglyphs submitted by SolarMegalith : Site in Peru: One of the best preserved petroglyphs in Toro Muerto. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rock Art Marks Transformations In Traditional Peruvian Societies by bat400 on Friday, 26 September 2008
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Originally submitted by coldrum.

Most rock paintings and rock carvings or petroglyphs were created by ancient and prehistoric societies. Archaeologists have long used them to gain clues to the way of life of such peoples. Certain rock frescos − such as the renowned Lascaux and Chauvet cave paintings or the petroglyphs of Scandinavia and North America − have already yielded substantial information on our ancestors' daily lives.

However, for other regions of the world like Latin America studies are still fragmentary. In Peru, where many sites have already been located, mystery still cloaks the signification and role of these concentrations of cave paintings and petroglyphs. One of these sites, Toro Muerto, in the South of the country, contains over 4000 carved blocks scattered over several dozen hectares.

Discoveries made in different areas of the country over recent years by Peruvian and international researchers are keys to improved understanding of the meaning behind these artistic representations which were realized over a long period from 10 000 BP to the arrival of the first Spanish Conquistadors in the XVIth Century, or even beyond that time, as in the Cuzco area.

Analysis of the distribution and characteristics of these sites brought out a distinction between the art produced in the coastal valleys from that of the Andean Cordillera uplands. The extensive sites with rocks carved in the open air are concentrated mainly on the Pacific facing slopes, whereas the scenes painted in caves or under shelters predominate in the high regions and on the Amazon side.

These preferences as to the supports and techniques used reflect associated ritual practices which are probably rather different. Study of the oldest rock paintings and their dating by indirect methods (carbon 14 dating of remains of in situ burnt charcoal) showed them to be the work of hunter-gatherers who occupied the region between 7000 and 3000 BC The motifs are small and most often painted in red. They depict hunting scenes involving wild camelid species, such as the guanaco, and also human-like silhouettes.

The most ancient sites show a predominance of naturalistic representations of dead or wounded animals. However, a second set dated at 4000 to 5000 years BC eulogizes fertility. This stylistic development, which seems to coincide with the beginnings of animal husbandry in the high upland regions of Peru, appear to symbolize the emergence of pastoralism and the change in man—animal relationships that came along with this practice.

These research studies also brought into relief periods that were distinct in terms of stylistic evolution of carved figures. Whereas the most ancient motifs, (2500-300 BC) essentially reproduced complex figures bearing high symbolic and spiritual content, depicting mythical, often monster-like, animals and supernatural beings, the later carvings characteristically appear in abundance and testify to a simplification of morphological features.



The largest sites dating from this era, which contain several hundred carved rocks with dozens of motifs, probably played a significant role in societies' cultural and social life, both at local and regional level. Their location, and some of the rituals that took place, may have been linked to areas of production and trade routes of prized commodities such as coca or salt.



A more extensive study of these archaeological sites, still strongly subjected to vandalism and erosion, is paramount. These vestiges testify to the ideological and social changes that occurred over a period of almost 8000 years, and can further understanding of the way of life and beliefs of peoples who were among the New World's first settlers.

For more, see the article from Science Daily.
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