Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-d8cs5 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-11T00:21:14.776Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Group of Geoglyphs in the Lower Carabamba Valley, Northern Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2021

Amedeo Sghinolfi Open the ORCID record for Amedeo Sghinolfi [Opens in a new window] ,
Jean-François Millaire ,
Jeisen Navarro Vega  and
Estuardo La Torre Calvera
Amedeo Sghinolfi*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
Jean-François Millaire*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
Jeisen Navarro Vega
Affiliation:
Independent Researchers, Trujillo, Perú
Estuardo La Torre Calvera
Affiliation:
Independent Researchers, Trujillo, Perú
*
([email protected], corresponding author)
([email protected])
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

In 2019, while conducting a survey of the Carabamba River valley (ca. 150–3,325 m asl) in northern Peru, we identified and surveyed a group of five unreported geoglyphs. Their location and iconography suggest that they date from the Formative period (1800–200 BC) and that they were possibly associated with a form of fertility ritual.

En 2019, mientras realizamos un estudio del valle del Río Carabamba (ca. 150-3,325 m.s.n.m.) en el norte de Perú, identificamos y estudiamos un grupo de cinco geoglifos no reportados previamente. Su ubicación e iconografía sugieren que datan del Período Formativo (1800-200 aC) y que posiblemente estaban asociados con una forma de ritual de fertilidad.

Keywords

northern PerugeoglyphsFormative periodfertilitynorte del PerúgeoglifosPeríodo Formativofertilidad
Type
Report
Information
Latin American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 632 - 640
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

References Cited

Alva, Walter L., and de Alva, Susana Meneses 1982 Geoglifos del Formativo en el valle de Zaña. In Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Archäologie, Vol. 4, pp. 203–212. Beck, Munich.Google Scholar
Beck, Colleen M. 1979 Ancient Roads in the North Coast of Peru. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.Google Scholar
Bikoulis, Peter, Gonzalez-Macqueen, Felipe, Spence-Morrow, Giles, Bautista, Stefanie, Alvarez, Willy, and Jennings, Justin 2018 Ancient Pathways and Geoglyphs in the Sihuas Valley of Southern Peru. Antiquity 92:1377–1391.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bischof, Henning 1994 Towards the Definition of Pre- and Early Chavín Art Styles in Peru. Andean Past 4:169–228.Google Scholar
Briceño, Jesús R., and Fuchs, Peter 2009 Los Mochicas y las relaciones transversales en el valle de Virú, norte del Perú. Observaciones desde el sitio arqueológico “La Huaca.” Revista del Museo de Arqueología e Historia 11:111–144.Google Scholar
Burger, Richard L. 1982 Pojoc and Waman Wain: Two Early Horizon Villages in the Chavin Heartland. Ñawpa Pacha 20:3–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burger, Richard L. 1992 Chavin and the Andean Origins of Civilization. Thames and Hudson, London.Google Scholar
Castillo Benitez, Daniel, and Barrau, María S. 2014 Arte rupestre en el Alto de la Guitarra: Paraíso de cazadores, calendario agrícola, mitología y ritual en la costa norte peruana. Conchopata 4:304–334.Google Scholar
Castillo Benitez, Daniel, and Barrau, María S. 2016 Avances en el inventario de sitios con arte rupestre en la cuenca del Río Virú. Arkinka 252:100–111.Google Scholar
Corcuera Cueva, Víctor, and López, Gori-Tumi Echevarría 2010 Geoglifos y contexto arqueológico en la Quebrada Santo Domingo, valle de Moche, Perú. Boletín APAR 1(3):40–47.Google Scholar
Corcuera Cueva, Víctor, and López, Gori-Tumi Echevarría 2011 Geoglifos en las lomas costeras del Cerro Campana, valles de Chicama y Moche. Informe preliminar. Boletín APAR 2(8):255–261.Google Scholar
del Carpio Perla, Martín, Fulle, Martín Mac Kay, and Gamarra, Raphael Santa Cruz 2001 Poro Poro: Religión y agua en el Formativo de la sierra norte peruana. Arqueológicas 25:95–116.Google Scholar
Disselhoff, Hans D. 1955 Neue Fundplätze Peruanischer Felsbilder. In Baessler-Archiv: Beiträge Zur Völkerkunde. Herausgegeben im Aufträge des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin, Vol. III, edited by Disselhoff, Hans D. and Krieger, Kurt, pp. 55–74. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin.Google Scholar
Downey, Jordan T. 2015 Statecraft in the Virú Valley, Peru, in the First Millennium A.D. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.Google Scholar
Gálvez Mora, César A., Castañeda Murga, Juan J., and Becerra Urteaga, Rosario M. 1996 Caracoles terrestres: 11,000 años de tradición alimentaria en la costa norte del Perú. In Cultura, identidad y cocina en el Perú, edited by Olivas, Weston Rosario, pp. 55–76. Universidad San Martín de Porres, Lima.Google Scholar
Gálvez Mora, César A., Castañeda Murga, Juan J., Runcio, María A., and Espinoza Córdova, María del Carmen 2012 Geoglifos, ocupación y uso del espacio en el valle medio de Chicama, costa norte del Perú. In Arqueología y antropología en la encrucijada: Desafíos actuales en la investigación social. Actas del VI Coloquio Binacional Argentino-Peruano, edited by de Haro, María T., Rocchietti, Ana M., Runcio, María A., de Lara, Odlanyer H., and Fernández, María V., pp. 87–108. Instituto Superior del Profesorado Dr. Joaquín V. González, Buenos Aires.Google Scholar
Guffroy, Jean 1999 El arte rupestre del antiguo Perú. Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hocquenghem, Anne M. 1983 Les crocs et les serpents: L'autorité absolue des ancêtres mythiques andins. In Visible Religion: Annual for Religious Iconography: 2. Representations of Gods, pp. 58–74. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands.Google Scholar
Hostnig, Rainer 2003 Arte rupestre del Perú: Inventario nacional. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Lima.Google Scholar
Lumbreras, Luis G. 1977 Excavaciones en el templo antiguo de Chavín (sector R): Informe de la sexta campaña. Ñawpa Pacha 15:1–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Masini, Nicola, Orefici, Giuseppe, and Rojas, Josué Lancho 2016 Cahuachi and Pampa de Atarco: Towards Greater Comprehension of Nasca Geoglyphs. In The Ancient Nasca World: New Insights from Science and Archaeology, edited by Lasaponara, Rosa, Masini, Nicola, and Orefici, Giuseppe, pp. 217–238. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Millaire, Jean-François 2010 Moche Political Expansionism as Viewed from Virú: Recent Archaeological Work in the Close Periphery of a Hegemonic City-State System. In New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization, edited by Quilter, Jeffrey and Castillo Butters, Luis J., pp. 221–249. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.Google Scholar
Oficina Nacional de Evaluación de Recursos Naturales 1973 Inventario, evaluación y uso racional de los recursos naturales de la costa: Cuencas de los ríos Virú y Chao, Vol. I. Oficina Nacional de Evaluación de Recursos Naturales, Lima.Google Scholar
Shibata, Koichiro 2017 Cosmología tripartita en Huaca Partida, valle bajo de Nepeña. Indiana 34(1):13–29.Google Scholar
Szpak, Paul, Millaire, Jean-François, White, Christine D., Lau, George F., Surette, Flannery, and Longstaffe, Fred J. 2015 Origins of Prehispanic Camelid Wool Textiles from the North and Central Coasts of Peru Traced by Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses. Current Anthropology 56:449–459.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Topic, Theresa L., and Topic, John R. 1982 Prehistoric Fortification Systems of Northern Peru: Preliminary Report on the Final Season, January-December 1980. Manuscript on file, Department of Anthropology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.Google Scholar
Van Hoek, Maarten 2017 Una actualización del arte rupestre de Mayasgo-1, cuenca del Río Virú. TRACCE – Online Rock Art Bulletin 42. http://www.rupestre.net/tracce/?p=12638, accessed June 5, 2020.Google Scholar
Van Hoek, Maarten 2018 The Huacapongo Corridor: Rock Art along a Prehistoric Coastal Route in the Desert Andes. Self-published, Oisterwijk, Netherlands.Google Scholar
Venturoli, Sofia 2005 Animales de la fertilidad, análisis de la simbología vinculada a los animales en la sierra de Ancash. In Quaderni di Thule: Rivista italiana di studi americanistici V, Atti del XXVII Convegno Internazionale di Americanistica, pp. 73–78. Argo, Lecce, Italy.Google Scholar
Wilson, David J. 1988 Desert Ground Drawings in the Lower Santa Valley, North Coast of Peru. American Antiquity 53:794–804.CrossRefGoogle Scholar