About The Project
Welcome to the Proyecto Arqueologico Distrito del Caceres Ancash
(PADCA) home page. PADCA was started by doctoral student Kimberly Munro,
an Andean archaeologist currently working on her dissertation at
Louisiana State University. The purpose of PADCA is to investigate and
document the
archaeological remains located within the Cáceres district
in the Nepeña Valley, in central Peru. In the summer of 2013, PADCA
spent several weeks locating, recording, and re-investigating
archaeological sites in the upper Nepeña in order to focus on a specific
site for further dissertation research.
The sites of interest showed elements of coastal-highland
interactions during the Early Horizon (900-1 BCE) and Early Intermediate
Period (EIP) (AD 1-800) within the valley. Nepeña is located in the
Department of Ancash, Peru. The 2013 field season investigated sites in
the yunga (1,000- 2,300 m) and quechua (2,300– 3,500 m) ecological life
zones.
The upper Nepeña Valley is a geographical zone which is currently
only a footnote of interest for Andean researchers. With the exception
of archaeologist, Hugo Ikehara’s survey, past surveys were preliminary
and focused mainly on the middle and lower valley. PADCA’s research will
help to fill in the gaps in inter-regional interactions for the Nepeña
Valley system.
The Cáceres District encompasses several river tributaries of the
Nepeña Valley. These tributaries include the Lampanin, Colcap, and Cosma
branches, whose headwaters are located in the Cordillera Negra
mountains and flow down to converge into the Nepeña River just west of
the town of Jimbe. The site of Karecoto, located just outside the small community of Cosma is currently the main focus of the PADCA project.
Documented during the 2013 field season, Karecoto
is a large ceremonial mound complex which dates at least to the Early
Horizon (900-1 BCE). The 2014 season will be the first to excavate and
map the components of the site in order to better understand its role in
the regional socio-political climate of highland and coastal Ancash
during the Early Horizon.
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