Poder religioso, crisis y prosperidad en Pachacamac: del Horizonte Medio al Intermedio Tardío

• Main Author: Régulo G. Franco Jordán
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Institut Français d'Études Andines 2004-12-01
• Series: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
• Subjects: Old Temple; Middle Horizont; pyramid; Pachacamac; señorío of Ichsmay; pottery
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/bifea/5074
• ISSN: 0303-7495; 2076-5827

Pachacamac has been defined as a great ceremonial center with much fame in Old Peru. Their origins go back Early to the Intermediate Period. In this article we present some results the presence of happened climatic changes mainly in the Average Horizon, that caused substantial changes in the religious ideology. From then, other climatic crises caused the installation of groups of people altoandinas whose rest are underneath Pyramids with Ramp, that happened later in a reframing of the ceremonial center, giving beginning to a reconstruction of the same one with the appearance of Pyramids with Ramp, that come to be a kind of religious embassies that represented the prestigious señoríos but of the central coast. The Pyramid with Ramp nº 2 Incline is discussed on the function of pyramids with Ramp, taking like example specially, of where evidences recovered potters who along with those that was in the Old Temple, they allow to establish stylistic a temporary sequence and. Some interpretations are taken in consideration on the basis of the results of the excavations made in the two last decades.