A Group of Geoglyphs in the Lower Carabamba Valley, Northern Peru. Issue 3 (September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sghinolfi, Amedeo; Millaire, Jean-François; Navarro Vega, Jeisen; La Torre Calvera, Estuardo
• Is Part Of: Latin American antiquity. Volume 33:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 632
• Page End: 640
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Subjects: northern Peru -- geoglyphs -- Formative period -- fertility; norte del Perú -- geoglifos -- Período Formativo -- fertilidad; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Indians of South America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 918
• DOI: 10.1017/laq.2021.60
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1045-6635

Abstract

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.