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Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 09 October 2018  Page Views: 1187

Multi-periodSite Name: Siete Huaca Alternative Name: Kushipampa, Siete Waka
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 14.94 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Casma  Nearest Village: Moro
Latitude: 9.1143S  Longitude: 78.1785W
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.
3 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
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Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept, Peru. Northeast corner of the main portion of the walled complex. Highest standing wall. Photo by bat400, September 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in the Middle Nepeña Valley, Ancash Department, Peru.
Outside the village of Moro this massive complex lies on a hilltop roughly parallel to the Nepeña River and now studded with clumps of cactus. There was an ancient irrigation canal to the northwest of the hilltop, and this is still the nearest area of modern farming.

This is referred to as a "Mound and Enclosure" ceremonial site and the huge walled plazas were built during the Final Formative Period (450 - 150 BC). The whole complex may have been built over 300 years, but is considered to have been abandoned as a ceremonial site by the end of this period. (This being a ceremonial site does not necessarily rule out that it might well have had use as a defensive structure, but researchers have identified other more fortified locations to the east of Siete Huaca.)

The outer edges of the walls are laid out in the orientation of the hill top, roughly parallel to the river. An internal passageway appears between two sections of the complex, running roughly northwest to southeast.

Multiple rectangular sectors are created by massive dressed stone walls, laid in horizontal courses of large and small stone alternately. Openings are indicated by both fallen large stone lintels of a lighter colored stone than the walls, and stone with finer work on multiple sides, to make up the impressive entrance corners.
Noteworthy is a massive fallen stone lintel with incised carving on one surface (identified by Ikehara as having been carved after the Sechín style.)

Outside of the massive rectangular walls one can make out circular or multisided depressions surrounded by foundations of small stones. These residences can be seen in aerial views. Undecorated ceramic debris litter the areas both inside and outside the large walled sectors. Research papers (Tsukayama) identify additional rectangular plaza boundaries on the southeast portion of the hilltop, but these are difficult to make out by the layman.

From Tsukayama and using ceramic surveys, this area was occupied periodically from 800 BC through the colonial Period, but with a much higher population density in 450 - 150 BC (Final Formative Period). From the same researcher, a summary of a survey of the entire river valley and multiple sites leads him to believe Siete Huaca was built and its greatest population density reached following a period of crisis as the culture associated with Chavin de Hauture (Cupisnique-Chavin Religious Complex) broke apart.


There is no signage other than the large blue ministry sign for the archaeological zone. You can reach the area near the sign by lanes between farm fields using a mototaxi, truck, jeep, or SUV, and then walk to the hilltop.

Sources:
Hugo Cesar Ikehara Tsukayama, "Leadership, Crisis and Political Change: the End of the Formative Period in the Nepena Valley, Peru," University of Pittsburgh, 2015.
Ikehara, Hugo, "Proyecto Arqueológico Kushipampa, temporada 2008, informe técnico final presentado al Instituto Nacional de Cultura", 2008.
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Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept Peru. Walking up the hill to Siete Huaca. Photo by bat400, September 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept Peru. One of the multiple entranced into the plazas of the walled complex. Note the particularly large white stones of the entry, which are finished and rounded. Unfortunately even a little known site is susceptible to graffiti. Photo by bat400, September 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept Peru. Stitched photo of the decorated lintel. Photo by bat400, September 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept. Peru. Stitched photo of the exterior of the longest wall of the complex, northern side. A collapsed entrance is seen at right. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept Peru. First real view of the walled complex as to approach from the south. Outside the walled area the hilltop was densely settled with small stone walled homes from aprox 450 - 150 BC. Photo by bat400, September 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept Peru. The fallen decorated lintel, just inside of the entrance. Photo by bat400, September 2018.

Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept Peru. Walking across one of the interior plazas of the walled complex. The wall we are advancing to is actually a double wall with an internal passageway. Photo by bat400, September 2018.

Siete Huaca
Siete Huaca submitted by bat400 : Site in Ancash Dept, Peru. Scatter of ceramics outside of the walled complex. Photo by bat400, Sept 2018.

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