We continue on our path to recover the memory of those characters who gave prominence to our education and culture, and whose names today identify streets, squares and educational institutions throughout the national territory, despite the fact that the general public is unaware of its existence and
A prominent historian and chronicler, student of multiple aspects of our cultural, artistic and gastronomic identity, our biography today is one of the richest intellectual reserves of the 20th century. His writings are reference material in various sociological, cultural and journalistic schools du
One of the things we look for with our biographical series “And who was it?” is to make known to the teaching community -and by extension to society as a whole- that the history of our education has produced outstanding personalities at an intellectual and academic level. And not only in past cent
T exto adapted from the book “History:from caves to the Third Millennium (Vol. 3)”,by Myriam Becho Mota and Patrícia Ramos Braick The statement above is by Pedro Rabelo, son of journalist José Maria Rabelo, who at the age of 17 was detained and tortured in Chile. The Rabelo family, like hund
ARCHITECTURE AND LIFE IN PRE-HISPANIC PERU The human being builds his existence by solving his basic needs, such as feeding him first and second his physical protection. The issue of food was and will continue to be the foundation of human existence, since through its satisfaction the health necessa
THE NEWS (“EL COMERCIO”, JUNE 29, 2009) The sacred city of Caral was declared a Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and with it something that we already knew in the land of the red and white flag was made official, something that made our chests swell with pride:in Peru, brilliantly the oldest
SYNTHESIS BY :Danièle LAVALLÉE - Santiago UCEDA ARCHAIC PERIOD (FROM 12000 TO 2000 BCE): From the year 12000 before our era, the entire Peruvian territory was already occupied by groups of hunter-gatherers (located in the highlands of the Cordillera) and fisher-gatherers (settled on the coast), o
Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, Peter Kaulicke, Julián I. Santillana and Waldemar Espinoza Soriano. ECONOMIC HISTORY; ANDEAN SOCIETY; PREHISPANIC ERA; PRECOLUMBIAN ERA; INCAS, TAHUANTINSUYO VOL 1 ECONOMY PRE HIS BREAD ICA HISTORIAN:CARLOS CONTRERAS editor CENTRAL RESERVE BANK OF PERU IEP Institute of
The qualification of ancient Peru is ambiguous, generalized and imprecise in terms of the sexual sphere we refer to. Since a point of agreement is not reached in terms of the purpose pursued by the ideologies and practices of the various peoples who inhabited the antiquity in Peru, sometimes being t
The impressive Moche iconography is perceived today as a portal to their lifestyle, their customs and their religious beliefs. This perception surely has more to do with the degree of apparent realism of his beautifully modeled and painted ceramic vessels than with the true nature of his representat
John V. Murra. ANDEAN HISTORY THIS VOLUME GATHERED 12 ESSAYS BY JHON MURRA, ONE OF THE MOST REPUTED PERUVIANS OF TODAY. ITS IMPORTANCE DERIVES FROM THE RENEWAL THAT MURRA HAS IMPRESSED IN THE CRITICISM AND USE OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES AND IN THE SYSTEMATIZATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ENTH
FIRST HORIZON OR EARLY HORIZON The first Pan-Andean State in the central Andes of South America was theocratic; It was imposed through a terrifying religion, representing its gods as bloodthirsty and ferocious cats, anacondas and harpies. Then came the militarist States, which by means of an army vi
Final or transition formative Chavín does not disappear completely or suddenly. His elements continued to be active in numerous Peruvian cultures.1.- Some of them were more conservative, more Chavines, than others and reflected the Chavín style for a longer time.2.- Others cultures were released so
It is a funerary chamber with 63 mummies and more than a thousand valuable archaeological pieces. PUCP professionals, together with specialists from the University of Warsaw, had been working in the area since 2002. We spoke with Professor Krzysztof Makowski, scientific advisor to the project. “It i
The renowned researcher of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Krzysztof Makowski, interprets the importance of the extraordinary discovery that occurred in the Castillo de Huarmey archaeological complex, in the Áncash region. It reveals that the appearance of the burial chamber with more th
The times that follow the introduction of ceramics in the Central Andean lands are linked in some way with the phenomenon called Chavín, which extends approximately until the second century before the Christian Era when regional societies begin to consolidate. Although it might seem idle, as this ha
What is Caral? Caral was a sacred city, located in the valley of the Supe River. It had an approximate extension of 50 hectares. It is made up of some 32 architectural ensembles, in addition to a number of dwellings that has not yet been specified.Why is Caral important? It is important to clarify p
Lima, Oct. 24 (ANDEAN). Huaca Pucllana is the scene of the discovery of a tomb from the year 1,000 AD in intact condition belonging to the Wari culture, discovered in the sixth stage of the area called the Great Pyramid of the enclosure and is made up of two bundles:an adult and a child. .According
In those societies where individuals are immersed in a regime of social relations with differential access to the means of production, it is understood that such differentiation is associated with a given property regime and, therefore, requires an instance of power that is capable of guaranteeing t
By Juan José Pacheco Ibarra UNMSM Historian How did the ancient people of Lima celebrate Christmas? In the 19th century, Christmas was a true religious holiday, very different from the one we celebrate now. Christmas was the central celebration of a series of activities that lasted throughout the
The Brazilian flag is composed of a green rectangle, a yellow diamond, a blue circle, 27 white stars and a white band with the inscription Ordem e Progresso, with the letters in green. Meaning of the colors of the Brazilian Flag The colors of the Brazilian flag are officially four:green, yellow, b
The Fascism was a nationalist, anti-liberal and anti-socialist political system that emerged in Italy in 1919, at the end of the First World War, and lasted until 1943. Led by Benito Mussolini, it influenced political regimes in several European countries, such as Germany and Spain in the interwar
The material compiles the biography of the Ayacucho hero and little-known aspects of the military. The Ministry of Defense and Telefónica publish a book on “El brujo de los Andes”. ....When Colonel Cáceres loaded his bayonet on the pampas in front of Redoubt No. 1, the battle of Miraflores had begu
Inca bridges were built using textile fiber technology and are among the most impressive types of engineering constructions in Pre-Columbian America. By Me. Cláudio FernandesAssim like os Aztecs and theMayans , which distinguished themselves among the civilizations of Pre-Columbian America with