A FUNERARY CONTEXT OF MIDDLE HORIZON FROM CERRO COLORADO, HUACHO

Authors

  • Pieter van Dalen Luna Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
  • Roberto C. Tello Cuadros Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
  • Hans G. Grados Rodríguez Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2015n30.e12272

Keywords:

archeology, Huaura Valley, funerary contexts, Middle Horizon, Huaura culture.

Abstract

The characteristics of a funerary context of the Middle Horizon recovered from the funerary complex of Cerro Colorado, at the southern end of the valley of Huaura is presented. Between 2014 and 2015 the Archaeological Research Project Chancay-Huaral-Atavillos, managed to dig more than 2,000 funerary contexts of this vast funerary complex, the largest in Peru’s central coast.

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Published

2015-12-31

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ARTÍCULOS ORIGINALES

How to Cite

A FUNERARY CONTEXT OF MIDDLE HORIZON FROM CERRO COLORADO, HUACHO. (2015). Arqueología Y Sociedad, 30, 407-424. https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2015n30.e12272