Title
Watching the sky from the ushnu: The sukanka-like summit temple in Pueblo Viejo-Pucara (Lurin Valley, Peru)
Date Issued
01 January 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
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.
Start page
169
End page
177
Volume
7
Issue
S278
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Historia
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84882763266
ISSN of the container
17439213
ISBN of the container
978-110701978-2
Conference
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus