cris.boxmetadata.label.title
Watching the sky from the ushnu: The sukanka-like summit temple in Pueblo Viejo-Pucara (Lurin Valley, Peru)
cris.boxmetadata.label.dateissued
01 browse.startsWith.months.january 2011
cris.boxmetadata.label.accesslevel
open access
cris.boxmetadata.label.resourcetype
book part
cris.boxmetadata.label.authors
cris.boxmetadata.label.abstract
Seen from the 'ushnu' platform in the palatial complex of Pueblo Viejo-Pucará, near Pachacamac, built by the Huarochirí people, the visual axis extends southwards towards two circular structures of the summit temple. Of these structures rising up from a monumental platform, one contains a sacred rock to which gold, silver and Spondylus princeps. were offered and the other housed a huanca-idol. These structures, and the ushnu, marked points and directions that are relevant for the organization of sacred geography, but whose location does not correspond to orientations that are astronomically relevant for calendrical calculations, contrary to the initial hypothesis. © International Astronomical Union 2011.
cris.boxmetadata.label.citationstartpage
169
cris.boxmetadata.label.citationendpage
177
cris.boxmetadata.label.volume
7
cris.boxmetadata.label.issue
S278
cris.boxmetadata.label.language
English
cris.boxmetadata.label.ocdeknowledgeArea
Física y Astronomía
Historia
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cris.boxmetadata.label.doi
cris.boxmetadata.label.scopusidentifier
2-s2.0-84882763266
cris.boxmetadata.label.containerissn
17439213
cris.boxmetadata.label.containerisbn
978-110701978-2
cris.boxmetadata.label.conference
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
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Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus