TESTIMONIES AND EVIDENCE: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CARTOGRAPHY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE PAINTED TEMPLE OF PACHACAMAC: cartografía del S.XVIII para la comprensión de la arquitectura del templo pintado de pachacamac
A recurrent practice in Peruvian archaeology is to compare archaeological evidence with information provided by chroniclers of the conquest and the early sixteenth century, who provide significant data on the Inca empire and the coexisting societies, their economic, political, social, religious, ide...
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Centro de Estudios de Arqueología Histórica (CEAH) de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2024
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| Online Access: | https://teoriaypracticaah.unr.edu.ar/index.php/tpahl/article/view/214 https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/175901 |
| Summary: | A recurrent practice in Peruvian archaeology is to compare archaeological evidence with information provided by chroniclers of the conquest and the early sixteenth century, who provide significant data on the Inca empire and the coexisting societies, their economic, political, social, religious, ideological and other aspects. In this article we propose an analytical and questioning dialogue between the information of explorers, travellers and other testimonies of the 18th century and the archaeological record, in order to understand the vestiges of the sanctuary of Pachacamac, as they were observed and described at that time. We present our findings based on our last intervention in the Painted Temple (200 - 1470 A.D.) of the Pachacamac sanctuary, which partially reveals the appearance of the Pachacamac oracle during its last moments of service to the pre-Hispanic cult, after the incursion of the first Spanish colonisers, intensive looting activities, a partial abandonment and from the point of view of 18th century travellers, scientific expeditionaries, cartographers and Peruvian intellectuals. |
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