Other location in Sapillica District could have petroglyphs

 

SAPILLICA, Peru – Patrol ffarmerss in Pampa Verde Town, Sapillica District (Ayabaca Province), identified what seem to be petroglyphs or drawings carved on rock, according to the Journalist José encalada reported this Sunday to FACTORTIERRA, which has coordinated a related investigation in that same district as well as Tambogrande District (Piura Province).

As a Pampa Verde’s patrol farmer stated to FACTORTIERRA this Monday, what they have identified up to today are five drawings carved on rock 1 mile around the town, especially beside Timbes River, and near water natural coppers that the locals know as “the lagoon.”

FACTORTIERRA has sent the pictures to Lima-based archeologist Daniel Dávila, who specializes in Pre-Inca Age, and has investigated the existent petroglyphs in MalingasSector (Tambogrande District) between 2009 and 2011. Preliminarily, he has said they seem to be archaeological vestiges, but due to the photograph angle and the apparent damage status, it is not possible to offer more details like probable date and origin.

However, Davila believes  that the evidences could have some relation with identified and published sites by FACTORTIERRA.NET during the second half of 2016 in other places of Sapillica like Tunal, Trujillo, and Loma Alta, where the best conserved trace is found up to today.

“Having already not only one but a set of petroglyphs, it is necessary we have a much intensive field investigation that allows us to set if there is a relation, and for that becomes the start point to the local authorities for thinking of a future art-on-the-rock circuit,” the specialist said.

Regarding it, FACTORTIERRA advised to the Farmer Patrol’s official for avoiding more damages at the zone, like throwing trash or vandalizing the rocks, as well as it trained him in simple conservation procedures while a coordination is making with the local authorities, as a more professional field analysis.

FACTORTIERRA wan the 2011 environmental Citizenship National Award to the Best Media Campaign for its international publishing work about Malingas Sector, that has a petroglyphs network as its most highlighted feature, possibly 4000 years old, Amazonian origin, belonging to the so-called Samanga Tradition. Preliminarily, the petroglyphs of Tunal and Loma Alta could belong to this same era, according to the prospection made with Dávila, but it is necessary to confirm directly on the field.

Photos provided by José Encalada.