07:00 pm. RUMIMAKI sits pensive and hesitant, thinking about his meeting with the Villca the next morning at 04:00 am. What a strange hour he said to himself. The Villca told him that he will be in charge of an important work for Gods and for inhabitants. RUMIMAKI, 20 years old, tall , with a prodigious hands from child to tilling the stone, was one of a young sculpture masters...
Aug 27, 2008
Aug 5, 2008
>CHAVIN DE HUANTAR (1,200 bc - 200 ad)
The first great culture of ancient Peru. A society dominated by priests whose geographical influence spread not by virtue of its warriors but for its mystic-religion influence.
The tusk of the jaguar, a symbol of divine power and a tool to control material subjects through fear. The underground labyrinths of their buildings where only priests may enter are the holy places where the gods imparted his instructions to the priestly caste and these to the inhabitants...
VIDEO : CHAVIN DE HUANTAR : UC Berkeley - Scanning Project
Aug 3, 2008
>ANCIENT CULTURES
The most ancient culture in Perú is still uncertain. New studies revealed that there was a city , as we know it today, of 5,000 years old in a place called Caral, in the coast , north of Lima.Certain archaeologists say that new excavations may lead to a theory that the man who inhabited Peru did not come from Asia through the Behring Strait but was original from Peru. Despite that new oldest cultures may be found trough archaeological studies, we must mention as the oldest important one the so called Chavin de Huantar, located in the Callejón de Conchucos, Ancash.
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Caral is a large settlement in the Supe Valley, near Supe, Barranca province, Peru, some 200 km north of Lima (ca. 10.9° S 77.5° W). Caral was inhabited between roughly 3000 BC and 1600 BC, enclosing an area of 66 hectares. Caral is the oldest known urban center in the Americas, accommodating more than 3,000 inhabitants. Caral is the center of the Caral Supe Civilization, spread over several settlements along the Peruvian coast. A quipu was discovered below the steps to one of the pyramids, dated to an age of roughly 5000 years, fixing the earliest date of this tradition of written communication 2000 years earlier than was previously thought.The Caral pyramids date from as early as the 27th century BC. Construction of the pyramids is thought to have continued until the 21st century BC. Their age is thus comparable to that of the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, built between 2600 and 2480 BCE.The Caral culture was succeeded by the Chavin culture from ca. 900 .
Video : Virtual reconstruction of old city of Caral
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Aug 2, 2008
>ETHNICS AND CULTURES DEVELOPMENT
The ancient cultures of Peru were developed in the Andes and the Coast and reached certain high level of knowledge to cultivate the land, architectural buildings, astronomy, society organization religious and art, as you can see in ancient cultures like Chavin, Moche and in Cusco. The cultures developed in the Jungle were not so advanced , although in some of andean cultures there is a clear influence from the Jungle (cultura selvática) like in Chavin de Huantar where the Jaguar- God is a clear reference. However, from a mystical point of view both are importants and have incredible beliefs, which for many people worldwide are part of an amazing spirituality of a population. Ancient cultures used many brevages to connect wth Gods as well to guess the future : Coca ceremonies; Ayahuasca rituals are an example.The Jungle population gather currently 56 different kind of ethnics. The Andes developed in the past many ethnics which were extinguished or dominated by others.The last one: the Incas, was the most important , before the Spanish conquest.
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