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The Llusco Structure

Toward the beginning of Late Chiripa, the Middle Chiripa Choquehuanca structure was abandoned and gradually filled with a Late Chiripa domestic midden (Whitehead in [Hastorf et al. 1998]). At this time another sunken court structure was constructed to the south of the mound, in the Llusco area (Paz in [Hastorf et al. 1998,Paz Soría 1999]; see Figure 6.4). This structure measured approximately 13x11 meters. The walls, like those of the Choquehuanca structure, were made of unworked alluvial cobbles set in a mud mortar. The structure had a prepared floor of compact white clay, and a subterranean drainage canal was found in the northwest corner, the earliest example of a drainage feature associated with a corporate construction. It was abandoned in approximately 600 B.C. There are no indications of associated surface structures, though these would almost certainly have been destroyed by modern plowing.



Matthew Bandy 2002-06-02