Mysterious Cloud People, Chachapoya (n. Peru)
May 14, 2010 21:09:47 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on May 14, 2010 21:09:47 GMT -8
Mysterious cloud people
6. December 2008 19:21
The newspapers are calling the town a "citadel" but that's probably a bit strong. The site covers around 5 hectares and includes a group of stone circular houses, as well as big flat stones that may have been used to grind seeds and wild plants. It's next to an abyss, complete with 500-metre high waterfall, and there are paintings on the cliffside. According to a Peruvian news agency, local people discovered the site, and showed it to Peruvian archaeologists last weekend.
According to contemporary Spanish reports, they were taller than other local peoples, and had pale skin (meaning their women were particularly desired by the Inca). This has led to suggestions that they could have been of European descent, but DNA analysis of skeletal remains has ruled this idea out. Apart from their colouring, the Chachapoya are best known for digging tombs in the sides of cliffs. They painted the bones of their dead red, and wrapped them in tight bundles of cloth. They regularly brought these bundles back into town to take part in various rituals and festivals...
One of the best-known Chachapoya sites is Kuelap (pictured) - a fortress discovered in 1843. It's bigger than the Inca's famous mountain city Macchu Picchu, but has never been fully explored.
www.decodingtheheavens.com/blog/post/2008/12/06/Mysterious-cloud-people.aspx
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Lost City More Than 1,000 Years Old Found in the Jungle of Northern Peru’s Amazon
A city has been found in the northern jungle area of Peru’s Amazon dated more than 1,000 years old belonging to the ancient Chachapoya tribe, as UK newspaper The Telegraph reports.
connecttoperu.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/lost-city-more-than-1000-years-old-found-in-the-jungle-of-northern-perus-amazon/
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Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru, Keith Muscutt (it says this book is $750!)
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826319629/clarycon-20
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Chachapoya Ruin Discovered
1/17/07
Archaeologist Keith Muscutt, assistant dean of the arts at UC Santa Cruz, reported the existence of a pre-Columbian ruin in Peru at the annual Institute of Andean Studies conference held at UC Berkeley. The ruin was first discovered by a family of Peruvian peasants in August who relayed the information to Muscutt, an expert on the Chachapoya and author of the 1998 book "Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru". They christened the structure Huaca La Penitenciara, or Penitentiary Ruin, because of its imposing impenetrable appearance. The stepped, three-tiered, rectangular building is about 70 metres long, 35 metres wide, and seven metres high.
The Chachapoya were known for building mountaintop citadels such as Kuelap, Gran Pajatén and Vira Vira, and leaving behind well-preserved mummies, which have been recovered from cliff tombs near Peru's Lake of the Condors and Huayabamba Lake. “This is an exciting development for Chachapoya archaeology,” said Muscutt. “With the exception of the colossal retaining wall of the Chachapoya citadel, Kuelap, I can’t think of a Chachapoya engineering project as ambitious as La Penitenciaria. Over 25,000 cubic yards of dressed stone and rubble were needed to build it.”
The Chachapoya was a fierce tribe that resisted the Inca empire before the arrival of European conquistadors in the 16th century. After falling to the Inca, the Chachapoya allied with the Spanish in an attempt to recapture their lands. Instead they succumbed to disease introduced by the Europeans. The discovery raises questions about the extend of the Chachapoya territory, according to Muscutt: "It's totally unexpected that such a massive monument would show up on the periphery of Chachapoya territory, in an area that has usually been thought of as a buffer zone between the highland Chachapoya and the tribal cultures of the Amazon Basin."
www.expeterra.com/Expeterra%20Time.html
6. December 2008 19:21
The newspapers are calling the town a "citadel" but that's probably a bit strong. The site covers around 5 hectares and includes a group of stone circular houses, as well as big flat stones that may have been used to grind seeds and wild plants. It's next to an abyss, complete with 500-metre high waterfall, and there are paintings on the cliffside. According to a Peruvian news agency, local people discovered the site, and showed it to Peruvian archaeologists last weekend.
According to contemporary Spanish reports, they were taller than other local peoples, and had pale skin (meaning their women were particularly desired by the Inca). This has led to suggestions that they could have been of European descent, but DNA analysis of skeletal remains has ruled this idea out. Apart from their colouring, the Chachapoya are best known for digging tombs in the sides of cliffs. They painted the bones of their dead red, and wrapped them in tight bundles of cloth. They regularly brought these bundles back into town to take part in various rituals and festivals...
One of the best-known Chachapoya sites is Kuelap (pictured) - a fortress discovered in 1843. It's bigger than the Inca's famous mountain city Macchu Picchu, but has never been fully explored.
www.decodingtheheavens.com/blog/post/2008/12/06/Mysterious-cloud-people.aspx
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Lost City More Than 1,000 Years Old Found in the Jungle of Northern Peru’s Amazon
A city has been found in the northern jungle area of Peru’s Amazon dated more than 1,000 years old belonging to the ancient Chachapoya tribe, as UK newspaper The Telegraph reports.
connecttoperu.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/lost-city-more-than-1000-years-old-found-in-the-jungle-of-northern-perus-amazon/
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Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru, Keith Muscutt (it says this book is $750!)
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826319629/clarycon-20
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Chachapoya Ruin Discovered
1/17/07
Archaeologist Keith Muscutt, assistant dean of the arts at UC Santa Cruz, reported the existence of a pre-Columbian ruin in Peru at the annual Institute of Andean Studies conference held at UC Berkeley. The ruin was first discovered by a family of Peruvian peasants in August who relayed the information to Muscutt, an expert on the Chachapoya and author of the 1998 book "Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru". They christened the structure Huaca La Penitenciara, or Penitentiary Ruin, because of its imposing impenetrable appearance. The stepped, three-tiered, rectangular building is about 70 metres long, 35 metres wide, and seven metres high.
The Chachapoya were known for building mountaintop citadels such as Kuelap, Gran Pajatén and Vira Vira, and leaving behind well-preserved mummies, which have been recovered from cliff tombs near Peru's Lake of the Condors and Huayabamba Lake. “This is an exciting development for Chachapoya archaeology,” said Muscutt. “With the exception of the colossal retaining wall of the Chachapoya citadel, Kuelap, I can’t think of a Chachapoya engineering project as ambitious as La Penitenciaria. Over 25,000 cubic yards of dressed stone and rubble were needed to build it.”
The Chachapoya was a fierce tribe that resisted the Inca empire before the arrival of European conquistadors in the 16th century. After falling to the Inca, the Chachapoya allied with the Spanish in an attempt to recapture their lands. Instead they succumbed to disease introduced by the Europeans. The discovery raises questions about the extend of the Chachapoya territory, according to Muscutt: "It's totally unexpected that such a massive monument would show up on the periphery of Chachapoya territory, in an area that has usually been thought of as a buffer zone between the highland Chachapoya and the tribal cultures of the Amazon Basin."
www.expeterra.com/Expeterra%20Time.html