Andean Past Volume 9 Article 10 11-1-2009 An Analysis of the Isabelita Rock Engraving and Its Archaeological Context, Callejon de Huaylas, Peru Victor Ponte University of Wisconsin Milwaukee,
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[email protected]. AN ANALYSIS OF THE ISABELITA ROCK ENGRAVING AND ITS ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT, CALLEJÓN DE HUAYLAS, PERU VÍCTOR MANUEL PONTE ROSALINO University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee INTRODUCTION as “a modo de casilla” (in the form of a little house), as “muy pintado” (heavily painted), and Isabelita is the name of an impressive Early with doors (ibid.:186). An important funeral Horizon rock engraving in Peru’s Callejón de chamber within a circular structure may have Huaylas. It was discovered in 1999 at the Amá been associated with the Isabelita Rock during II site (Pan 5-49) while I was conducting an the middle and late parts of the Early Horizon archaeological study in the vicinity of the mod- (c. 600-100 B.C.). ern Pierina Gold Mine (Ponte 2005:247, 1999b). The rock stood in the upper part, or The village of Mareniyoc occupies a large Cotojirca neighborhood, of the village of Maren- mound composed of the remains of an Early iyoc in the Jangas district, Huaraz province, Horizon occupation (Figure 11).