"LAS ALDAS" ARCHEOLOGICAL COMPLEX

"LAS ALDAS" ARCHEOLOGICAL COMPLEX
SCALE MODEL CASMA REGIONAL MUSEUM

LOCATION

"Las Aldas" is by the kilometer 345 of the North Pan American highway and near the seashore, near is the Tourist Camping "Las Aldas" and the creek of fishermen "La Gramita".

Las Aldas is one of the others archeologicals sites of the province of Casma, better studied along with Sechín (Rosa Fung, Japanese Expedition, Terence Grieder and others).

It occupies a great area, where to constructions were done with stones and mud mortar, taking advantage of a rocky elevation and a desert pampa, that conserve valuable testimonies corresponding to several periods of national archaeology.

"LAS ALDAS" ARCHEOLOGICAL COMPLEX

The most important construction of the site is constituted by an center body and two lateral ones, conformed by stepped platforms that rise from down to the modified summit of the hill, oriented from south to the northeast; meanwhile a central staircase solves the unevennesses to arrive at the temple in the highest part and today almost destroy.

From that point it projects towards the edge of the beach, a cliff; but the panoramic vision of the sea, surprised in its immensity and natural force, produces a feeling of intimate rejoicing and surprise, that allows to understand the narrow entailment of the monument with the sea and the nature, because the intentionality is to take to the man until the top, to contemplate the spectacle of the impetuous sea and its surroundings.

Panoramic View of Tourist Camping "Las Aldas" and the creek of fishermen "La Gramita".

CREEK OF FISHERMEN "LA GRAMITA"

Before to initiate the ascent there are three great public square, the square nearest to the principal building has a semisunk ovoid well, with two frontal steps to descend to the center.

The lateral buildings have the same constructive pattern, the one of the north side also with a small circular well.

The pyramids staggered on the foot of the previous ones and around the square, differ subtly from the architectonic pattern.

The small houses done with pebbles are distribuídas in all the area and hardly visible for be buried with sand.

To the southeastern of the site is easy to discover the stone quarry but the mystery to solve is how the consumption of water were provided for the colossal construction, because it was inhabit by many centuries.

The complex demonstrates the creative force and the enterprising spirit of the Andean man, who in a desert place and on the foot of the sea, raised so important ceremonial center, surrounded by several near villages that were the sustenance of the same one, on the basis of the use of the marine resources and to the interchange with the agriculturists of the Casma river basin, like of other neighboring valleys, to be able to feed his population suitably, because aside from the great amount of marine waste there are evidences of vegetal rest, woven, ceramic, etc.

The Aldas was occupied 5,000 years ago, until the Chimú time, that is to say, it is a previous center to Chavín and to the most interesting of American Archaeology.

Source: Series Arqueologica Nº 12

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