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<< Other Photo Pages >> Tumshukayko - Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

Submitted by davidmorgan on Saturday, 03 December 2022  Page Views: 1190

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Tumshukayko Alternative Name: Tumshukaiko
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 17.127 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Caraz
Latitude: 9.038S  Longitude: 77.8144W
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.
4 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.
5 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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Tumshukayko
Tumshukayko submitted by dodomad : Photo Credit: Excavation Team - more at https://proyectoraimondi.wordpress.com Site in Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)
A Late Pre-Ceramic site in Ancash Region, Peru dating from about 2500 BCE. 1 km north from the city of Caraz, at an elevation of 2300m above sea level. The fine stone work forms a circular structure, consisting of platforms, terraces and stairways.

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Tumshukayko
Tumshukayko submitted by dodomad : Excavation plan, more at https://proyectoraimondi.wordpress.com Site in Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tumshukayko
Tumshukayko submitted by dodomad : Photo Credit: Excavation Team - more at https://proyectoraimondi.wordpress.com Site in Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Tumshukayko by Andy B on Saturday, 03 December 2022
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Callejón de Huaylas: Tumshukayko, la zona arqueológica que empieza a seducir al público europeo
"the archaeological zone that begins to seduce the European public" (in Spanish)
http://peru21.pe/cultura/callejon-de-huaylas-zona-arqueologica-tumshukayko-ancash-caraz-mision-italiana-piarte-antonio-raimondi-antiguo-peru-nnsp-noticia/

A couple of photos of this site on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=Tumshukayko

and lots of good ones here:
http://intirumiinn.com/tumshukayko-eng/
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Re: Tumshukayko by davidmorgan on Saturday, 03 December 2022
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Investigaciones arqueológicas en Tumshukayko (Caraz, Ancash) by Alberto Bueno Mendoza, (in Spanish).

Abstract: Tumshukayko is a gigantic monumental archeological place located in the outskirts of the north direction of the city Caraz, county of Huaylas, Ancash. It represents a true early urban concentration in a wide space, with a great dominating central mound, where we have begun the archaelogical excavations supported by the UNMSM
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