Travelers Stones. Highland and Coastal Interactions in Late Ritual Contexts at Pachacamac.

Author(s): Peter Eeckhout

Year: 2015

Summary

During the 2014 field campaign, the Ychsma Project (Université Libre de Bruxelles) has uncovered a small building decorated with murals in the Second Precinct of the site of Pachacamac, Central Coast of Peru. The floors of the building were covered with hundreds of various offerings, including many stones. These stones have shapes, colors and overall look very different from those present in the local geology. The study of the archaeological context and origin of these stones offers a new and original light on the relationships between coast and sierra in the Late Horizon.

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Travelers Stones. Highland and Coastal Interactions in Late Ritual Contexts at Pachacamac.. Peter Eeckhout. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395019)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
South America

Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;