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A Wari town on the slopes of Mejia (700-800 AD) currently under excavation by Dr. Donna Nash (UIC). Nash's excavation team is working at center photo. |
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This overview of the Torata Valley was taken from the reservoirs of the Inka agricultural system at Camata (1450-1532 AD). Prior to the Inka conquest, this area was an important colony of the Wari empire (600-1000 AD). |
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North side of the archaeological monument at Cerro Baul, Peru, a Wari site in interaction with Tiwanaku (600-1000 AD). Excavated 1997-2007 under the direction of P R Williams. |
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The archaeological site at El Paso includes components of Wari (600-1000 AD) hydrological engineering, ritual platforms, and a Tiwanaku shrine. It is currently under investigation as part of the Cerro Mejia Project directed by Donna Nash. |
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This archaeological site in Southern Peru was the provincial capital for the Cochunas ethnic group, conquered by the Inca ca. 1450 AD. It was excavated in the 1980s by Peter Burgi of the Programa Contisuyo and was reported on in his 1993 doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago. It is a threatened archaeological site today as local people wish to build houses and develop it as an urban zone. |
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The Late Tiwanaku archaeological site of Tumilaca la Chimba (950-1050 AD), reoccupied by the Estuquina (Cochuna) group (1250-1450 AD). The domestic sectors of the site were excavated by Pari and later Bawden in the 1980s and by the Cerro Baul Project in 2006-7, under the direction of P R Williams and Nicola Sharratt. |
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The vast Inka terrace system at Camata irrigated over 300 hectares before being abandoned prior to 1600 AD. The irrigation system has been studied by Mathews (1989), Williams (1997), and Dayton (2008), but there is still much to do. |
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The southern group of Qolqa (storerooms) at the Inka site of Camata Tambo (AD 1450-1532). Excavations at Camata were undertaken by Nicolas Guillaume Gentil (1989) and Monika Barrionuevo, Sofia Chacaltana, and Chris Dayton (2005). |
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The summit sector of Cerro Mejia, dated to the early Wari Period (700-800 AD), contains several palatial residence and feasting compounds. UIC Prof. Donna Nash's excavations in 1999-2000 and 2008-9 are revealing evidence for feasting by provincial elites. |
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The Temple of Picchu Picchu at the Wari site of Cerro Baul (600-1000 AD) is named after the volcanic peak on the horizon that it venerated. |