Showing posts with label pre-Inca treasures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pre-Inca treasures. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Peru, archaeological treasures in every corner

Peru, the cradle of great cultures

Peru is a country rich in history, which is not limited only to the Inca culture or pre-Inca cultures. It has a very remote past competing in antiquity and complexity with other peoples.


To start, I only briefly mention the most important cases, which will then be presented more fully on these deliveries. I'll start with cultures of the Peruvian coast.

Caral was the capital of civilization, is located 182 kilometers north of Lima, 23 km from the coast and 350 meters. He is credited with an antiquity of 5000 years and is considered the oldest civilization in America. It is listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, was a contemporary of other primitive civilizations such as Egypt, India and Mesopotamia.








The Lord of Sipan was a former Mochica ruler of the third century, whose tomb was discovered by Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva in 1987. This discovery was an important milestone in the archeology of the Americas because, first, it was found intact and trackless looting, a royal burial of a Peruvian civilization before the Incas. The wooden coffin in which it was found, was the first of its kind to be found in America and revealed the magnificence and majesty of the only ruler and warrior of ancient Peru found to date of its discovery.






Chan Chan ("sun shining") is a pre-Columbian adobe city built on the north coast of Peru by the Chimu. It is the largest city built in adobe of America and the second in the world. It is located northwest of Trujillo, was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1986, then included on the List of World Heritage in danger in the same year. Chan Chan is formed by nine citadels or small walled cities.





Pachacamac is an archaeological site located on the right bank of the river Lurin, very close to the Pacific Ocean in front of a group of islands of the same name, contains the remains of several buildings, dating from the Early Intermediate (III century AD) to the horizon Late (fifteenth century AD), where the buildings of the best preserved Inca period (1450-1532 AD).

There was an ancient oracle prehispanic basically built with adobe bricks, which the coast was place of worship of the god Pachacamac, who was credited with the creation of the universe and everything it contains.





The Nazca Lines are ancient geoglyphs found in the Pampas de Jumana in the desert of Nazca; they were drawn by the Nazca culture and are composed of several hundred figures ranging from as simple designs as lines to complex zoomorphic, and geometric figures fitomorfas appearing drawn on the surface. Since 1994 lines and geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana are Humankind Heritage.







Paracas was an important pre-Columbian civilization of Ancient Peru that developed in the peninsula of Paracas, province of Pisco between 700 a. C. and 200 d. C. Most of the information about the Paracas comes from archaeological excavations at Cerro Colorado ("Paracas-Caves') and Warikayan (" Paracas-Necropolis ") by Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello and Toribio Mejia disciple Xesspe in the 1920s.




The Paracas practiced a high-quality textiles, wool and cotton, as well as decorated pottery and basketry elaborate. The Paracas culture is the predecessor of the Nazca culture with which it has an obvious cultural affinity; for many specialists, the final phase of Paracas is initial phase of the Nazca culture.







References
Caral

Señor de Sipán

Chan Chan

Pachacámac

Líneas de Nazca

Cultura paracas