Miraya
Subtitle: asentamiento monumental de la zona capital de la civilización Caral
By: producción y edición, Ruth Shady, Marco Machacuay, Pedro Novoa y Edna Quispe
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Ministerio de Cultura
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lima, Perú
Language: spa
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Indian architecture; Indians of South America; Antiquities
Description: Miraya is an archaeological site just two kilometers from the sacred city of Caral, contemporary to it - between 3,000 and 1,600 years B.C - and part of the same civilization. There are eighteen pyramidal buildings distributed around a central zone in this area. Also found in Miraya time ago some terracotta figurines that are now part of the iconography of the oldest civilization of America. They represented the human figure in a natural way, with well-defined factions and were color painted. One of theses figurines is known as the 'priestess of Miraya' for its characteristics (collar, dress, and headdress). They reveal the important status that this woman had in society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-27).
Table of contents: title: Introducción; title: Ubicación; title: Aspectos geograficos; title: Antecedentes; title: El sitio arqueologico Miraya; title: Diseño urbano del formativo Inicial; title: Hallazgos en el subconjunto residencial C1; title: Edificio Publico Piramidal Menor C3; title: Cambios en el diseño urbano en el formativo temprano; title: Edificio publico A4.