Revised introduction Sept 2019

A good place to start is 1aa – To begin in the beginning 2016

1a First Contact August 2016.

2 – More questions than answers

4b – 256 Shades of Grey -2

5b Rock art in Peru

08b Llama trails past La Capilla – 2

10b Desert Signposts –

11b How many Llamas Make a Train 2?

14b Inca Domination and Sacrifice  –

15 Metalworking and War –

16 Metalworking in Mala –

17 The Staff God  –

18 Tupus from Lurin to Yauyos

20  The Sword and the Cross –

21 The Hill of Gold  –

22P The evolution of Whales,

26P Huancor and Chincha

27 Huancor and Chincha 2.

28 The Huarochiri Manuscript.

Maranga – 42 – a Trip to the Zoo,

43 -From the Zoo to Miraflores

44 – Earth Mover, Earth Shaker

45 – Cardal and Pan.

53 Rapprochement or Repression

54 Return to Calango –

55 Return to Calango Again –

56 Erasmo in Calango

57 Wari wraps and Checas chacras

60 Fujimori 1 incomplete,

61 Fujimori 2 incomplete

73 – Swallows in the Amazon

74 -Archaeoastronomy in Peru

75 – Huarochiri Rituals and Seasonal Festivals 

76 – Gary Urton and Chaupi Numca 

98 Watering the desert

99a Floods and Huaicos

99b Floods in Huancani

101 Hallucinogens july 2018

102 Five Day Fiesta

110 Where did all the people go

120 Encomiendas, reducciones and Haciendas

125 Extirpaciones and Avila

111 Pedro Cieza de Leon odds and ends unfinished

And Conclusions

Conclusion 1 – Paria Caca Rock

Conclusion 2 – The Dark Images

Conclusion 3 – Rock Art Dating Paper

The attempts to understand the different layers of images on the stones, and work towards interpreting and dating them, is ongoing, and some of the ideas so far are here, but I have password protected them if they are incomplete or unclear.

4 256 Shades of Grey 4a A few more shades of grey

5 Rock Art in Peru –  19 JPEGS 12 Brighter and darker –  29-Rock Varnish on the Orinoco  

Calibrating the images from radiation erosion (draft)

50 Kulbelka Munk revisited (draft)

59 – What really happening JPEGS 2

Cochineros Rock Dating Paper

And some bits and pieces about other aspects of Peru which are relevant but not fully tied in to the narrative (35 Keeping it in the Family36 Chasing Mobile Phones in Huacho38 Negotiating with the Gods –

To experience what the stones actually show, and their presence in the landscape, here might be a good place to start

01/The stones and their images

Photograph of the river bank and the stones

1a _ Exploration 

1a_First contact 

The stones and the images

Piedra 1 – line drawings and images

Piedra 4 – line drawings and images

Piedra 6 – line drawings and images

Piedra 10 – line drawings and images