Królestwo przed Inkami - Wielkie odkrycie polskich archeologów

      El Castillo to wzgórze zbudowany z suszonej na słońcu cegły adobe, ujęty w ramę z olbrzymich pni i oblicowany kamieniami, leży na wzgórzu w dolinie Rio Huarmey, w pobliżu ujścia rzeki do Pacyfiku, 290 km na północ od Limy. Wiedziano od dawna, że znajdują się tu groby przedstawicieli dawnych cywilizacji. Archeolodzy prowadzili wyścig ze złodziejami. W 2010 r. odkryli komorę grobową. Niestety była wyrabowana. http://www.rp.pl/artykul/337506,557725.html

Fot. Miron Bogacki	Fot. Krzysztof Makowski
El Castillo i dolina rzeki Huarmey
Fot. Miłosz Giersz Dr Patrycja Prządka-Giersz (fot. w 2010 r.)
Fot. Patrycja Prządka-Giersz Dr Miłosz Giersz z Instytutu Archeologii Uniwerytetu Warszawskiego kieruje badaniami archeologicznymi w Castillo de Huarmey (fot. w 2013 r.). Jest członkiem Oddziału Polskiego The Explorers Club

EL CASTILLO DE HUARMEY
RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY ON THE COAST OF PERU

     Polish-Peruvian team of archaeologists, led by Dr. Miłosz Giersz from the University of Warsaw have discovered very well preserved funerary chamber under the remains of an imperial mausoleum of El Castillo de Huarmey. It is the first Huari imperial unlooted tomb discovered by scientists.
El Castillo is the name of the large funeral platform resembling a stepped pyramid towering over the landscape of the River Huarmey Valley. El Castillo is also a place of an archaeological discovery that sheds a new light on the history of the Huari Empire and Moche culture.
     About 60 people, most probably women, were entombed in a chamber covered later with the mausoleum resembling those of the Huari elites. Women's bodies were originally wrapped in the fardos decorated with applications made of cotton and llama wool. Four individuals were treated with the special attention and buried in a smaller side-chambers. The discovery sheds a new light on the role of female elite, not only in the context of Huari culture, but other Andean pre-Columbian complex societies.
     Archaeologists have found over 1200 artefacts: ear ornaments, necklaces, pectorals, rings, knives, chisels, axes, spearheads, rattles, looms, spindles and spindle whorls, spoons, coca leaves containers and many objects related to weaving. The objects were made of gold, silver, copper, decorated with mother of pearl, Spondylus princeps shell, semiprecious stones, obsidian, bone, carved wood...
    The ceramic vessels represent the variation of the styles and techniques, suggesting their foreign and distant origins. The vessels are decorated with the depictions of the royal personages and creatures known from the motifs originating from Nasca, Tiwanaku or the region of Ayacucho. The decorations on a local molded ware are a mixture of the Huari motives and reminiscent of the Moche styles.
    The result of the excavations at Castillo de Huarmey as well as the results of the fieldwork earlier conducted in the valley of Culebras and Huarmey by Dr. Milosz Giersz with his wife Dr. Patrycja Przadka-Giersz proves that this part of the coast was conquered and controlled politically by the Huari empire.