Title
Study of the pre-hispanic road located in the PUCP campus, Lima, Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
CRC Press3
Abstract
The Pre-Hispanic Road located at the Campus of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) is one of the few remains of the Qhapaq Ñan road system that crosses the city of Lima. Its 467 meters of two parallel walls that have withstood severe earthquakes can provide valuable information on the techniques used by the Ichsma (1100-1472 A.D.) and Incas (1472-1532 A.D.) in the construction. Centro Tierra-INTE, a PUCP research team and UNESCO Chair in Earthen Architecture, is conducting a study to gain an accurate knowledge of the material and the construction technique and to propose guidelines for the conservation of this type of earthen structures so recurrent in archeological sites of the Peruvian Central Coast. The interdisciplinary study includes a bibliographic, historical, archeological compilation, soil mechanic tests, structures laboratories tests, and electronic microscopy sweep assays. Conclusions with a conservation methodology for Ichsma and Inca archaeology sites are presented.
Start page
357
End page
360
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Historia
Arqueología
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85054431454
ISBN
9781138027114
Resource of which it is part
Earthen Architecture: Past, Present and Future
ISBN of the container
9781315736877
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus