PAKRA - 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 large boulder at Pakra, only a short distance NE from Muralla. It clearly shows the damage caused by either natural exfoliation of the fine-grained granite or by vandals who may have removed part of the panel. Even though this panel only features simple zoomorphs, it still is most valuable and belongs to the Peruvian cultural heritage and should be respected and protected by law. Pakra also has a large flat boulder featuring possibly very old petroglyphs that only show up clearly in reflecting sun light. Even then they are hard to see and photograph. This detail shows a quadruped and a possible serpent. Another rounded boulder at Pakra shows a collection of petroglyphs, one of which is special as it shows - in the upper left-hand corner - a zoomorph (a monkey?) or an anthropomorph that either beats a drum of presents some kind of offering. Petroglyphs interpreted as offering-scenes seem to be repeated at the Huancor site, where again possible monkeys present offerings. Pakra is of special importance because of the fallen boulder with four monkeys, three of which seem to play some kind of trumpet (last photo). |
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