Coordinates:16°12′40″S 69°45′50″W / -16.21111, -69.76389
Jiskairumoko is a pre-columbian archaeological site located 54 kilometers (33 miles) south east of Puno, Peru. The site lies at an elevation of 4,115 meters (13,500 feet), in the Aymara community of Jachacachi, adjacent to the Ilave River drainage, of the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru. Occupation of Jiskairumoko spans from the Late Archaic to the Formative.
Research
The site's name is a combination of three Aymara words jiska meaning small, iru referring to a type of bunch grass, and moko signifying a small hill. Thus, Jiskairumoko means a small hill with bunch grass. The site was first formally recorded by Mark Aldenderfer in 1995 during a pedestrian survey of the Ilave River. The first excavations at the site were conducted in 1995. Jiskairumoko is the first Archaic open air site excavated in the Lake Titicaca Basin. Under the direction of Aldenderfer, a team from University of California, Santa Barbara including Nathan Craig and Nicholas Tripcevich conducted additional excavations at the site during the austral winters of 1999-2004. In-field geographic information system (GIS) methods were used in recording exposed surfaces. The site was plowed by tractor in 2005.
Read more at Wikipedia.org
Home
Canisters
