MURALLA - VALLE DE PISCO - PERU
Maarten van Hoek Updated September 2006
| RESPONSIBLE VISTOR BEHAVIOUR AT ROCK ART SITES
* Never touch or wet rock art - it is highly damaging, especially to rock paintings * NEVER chalk or enhance petroglyphs * Do not walk on engraved rock * Leave all archaeological artefacts as they are * Only take photographs, only leave your footsteps The first photo shows a detail of the petroglyphs on a huge boulder of the first site near the Pisco river. The majority of the images depicts zoomorphs, probably camelids, but notice the possible upside-down anthropomorphic figure near the centre. Some petroglyphs on this boulder are either re-worked or are more recent. This boulder probably is in situ, but others at this site may have been moved or displaced because of recent human activities. This site is in the easily accessible Pisco valley - a major route between Cusco and Lima in prehistoric times as well as in recent times. PLEASE RESPECT THE ANCIENT IMAGES. Another boulder at the same site features anthropomorphic figures, one of them possibly holding a staff or even a war-club. Human figures are rare at this site. Another large boulder features a possible mask and - among the many zoomorphs - a human holding a camelid on leash. |
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