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Huallamarca
Taking a trip back to civilization and simultaneously
to more ancient ruins, I met up with the group from Ithaca College to
tour Lima Culture pyramids in within Lima itself. The first, and older
(around 200 A.D.), Huaca
Huallamarca, was mostly reconstructed, with a huge, straight ramp going
up to the top of three platforms. The adobe bricks used to build it were
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Pucllana
The second pyramid, Huaca Pucllana, was
constructed later. For this pyramid, the Lima people used wide, flat
adobe bricks, alternately laid vertically or horizontally to make the
"library" system. The name is appropriate because the horizontal levels
look like shelves and the vertical levels look like books. This structure
was interesting because you could clearly see the adobes used to construct
it, and archeologists were in the process of excavating structures in
the plaza beneath it. Unfortunately, modern civilization has covered
most of that plaza area up with buildings and roads. Both huacas were
built by the Lima culture, which falls in the Early Intermediate Period.
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