Palpa is a town in southern
Peru
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, capital of the province of
Palpa in the
Ica region.
Archeological sites
As the capital of the
Palpa Province
The Palpa Province is the smallest of five provinces of the Ica Region of Peru and the only landlocked province of the region. The capital of the province is the city of Palpa.
Boundaries
*North: Huancavelica Region
*East: Ayacucho Region
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, the area is rich in archeological sites. Some have been around since the
Archaic Period all the way up to the Incan Empire's decline in the
Late Intermediate Period
This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dat ...
. These sites include:
Pernil Alto
The Pernil Alto archaeological site is located in Rio Grande District of Palpa province in the Ica Region of Peru. Although the site was occupied earlier, archaeologists traced the adoption of agriculture by the inhabitants from about 3800 BCE ...
;
Huayuri
Huayuri, also called the Lost City of Huayuri, is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site which flourished from 1150 to 1450 CE in the Late Intermediate Period (1000 - 1476 CE) of Peru. Huayuri is located in the Peruvian coastal desert in Ica R ...
;
Pinchago Bajo and
Pinchago Alto;
Mollake Chico;
PAP-294;
PAP-365;
PAP-64A and
PAP-64B;
Juaranga; Los Molinos;
Estaqueria;
La Muña
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; El Arenal; Chillo;
Parasmarca; and
PAP-379. Sites with the name Alto refer to a higher portion of a site, while the Bajo refers to a lower region of it. Each of these sites includes artifacts, such as ceramic pieces, that date the sites themselves through the layers, as well as identify the civilizations that occupied the sites. Most of the sites are close to the town, with it being centrally located between them. Despite the central location, some of these sites are harder to reach based on their physical location, and the ravines worn into the mountains by rivers over time. As a result, new methods of exploration had to be introduced and developed, including
3D Modeling.
[ Combining photogrammetry and laser scanning for the recording and modelling of the Late Intermediate Period site of Pinchango Alto, Palpa, Peru. ‘â]
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References
Populated places in the Ica Region
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