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thisworld1 · 7 months
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In this file photo taken on July 22, 2021, aerial view of the Chankillo Solar Observatory near Casma, Peru. Dedicated to the cult of the Sun, it served to indicate with great accuracy the solstices, equinoxes and a series of dates throughout the year, based on the solar position. Chankillo, the oldest solar observatory in America from between 500 and 200 BC, was placed in the 2021 list of world heritage sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Heritage Committee during its 44th session, taking place in Fuzhou, China from July 16 to 31, 2021. Janine Costa / AFP.
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ancientorigins · 1 year
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UNESCO takes Peru’s Chankillo site, containing the oldest known solar observatory, onto its prized World Heritage status list, describing the 2,300 year old creations as, “a masterpiece of human creative genius.”
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veredes · 9 months
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La creación de las ciudades. La importancia de revisar los orígenes para aproximarnos al entendimiento de la situación actual | Fernando Freire Forga
En el año 2014 acompañé al arqueólogo Gabriel Prieto en diversas salidas de campo como parte de los trabajos de levantamiento de información en la zona costera del norte del país. Visitamos los restos arqueológicos de Caral, en Supe, luego nos detuvimos en la Fortaleza Chimú de Paramonga, continuamos el trayecto y visitamos Las Aldas, en Ancash. Así mismo, realizamos una visita en el complejo arqueo-astronómico de Chankillo, recorrimos Sechín y visitamos una serie de “pirámides” muy antiguas en los alrededores de la ciudad de Casma, las cuales están construidas -en sus etapas más tempranas- con adobes de forma cónica.
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msamba · 1 year
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Nobody Knows Who Built This Ancient Observatory
[…] The Chankillo Archeoastronomical Complex is an ancient solar observatory in Peru that was built thousands of years before the Inca civilization ruled the area. Very little is known about the actual culture who built this ingenious structure, but we know they were far more advanced than we ever expected. […]
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dixvinsblog · 1 year
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Histoire des civilisations : " Chankillo " le premier observatoire solaire de l'humanité
Histoire des civilisations : ” Chankillo ” le premier observatoire solaire de l’humanité
Le premier observatoire solaire Le premier observatoire solaire de l’histoire fut construit par une culture inconnue des Andes. Au milieu du désert péruvien une culture sans nom réussit à créer le premier observatoire solaire pour mesurer les jours . Un des dieux et des déesses les plus importants pour la culture Inca était « Viracocha « la déesse de la création . Les anciens peuples…
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radiofolkperu · 2 years
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El observatorio inca que impresiona al mundo esta en "Chankillo" http://dlvr.it/SRhKzY
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updatesnews · 2 years
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Archaeologists baffled at oldest sun observatory in Americas built by mystery civilisation | Science | News
Archaeologists baffled at oldest sun observatory in Americas built by mystery civilisation | Science | News
The archaeological site has a row of 13 stone towers tracing the horizon of a hill. Known as the Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, the ruins have been hailed as a “masterpiece of human creative genius” with features unlike anything seen anywhere else. But the masterminds behind the stunning site remain a complete mystery, leaving researchers scratching their heads. While almost nothing is known…
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arqueologiadelperu · 3 years
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Inka Control of Time
Inka Control of Time
This paper is about the spatial mechanisms the Inka constructed in order to control time. Prudence Rice (2007) has recently discussed that mechanisms to control time were potent power tools in state-level Mesoamerican societies, such as the Maya. In the fifteenth century, the Inka built an empire in South America yet there is still no consensus as to how exactly they recorded history or reckoned…
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werkboileddown · 3 years
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Did you know that one of the oldest settlements of modern civilization is located in Peru?
Coastal Peru is on of 6 areas in the world where civilizations developed independently without outside influences, flourishing into an incredible society undertaking large scale building projects.
Along the coast of Peru runs one of the worlds driest deserts, there are small rivers that originate in the Andes mountains that run through this desert, acting as linear oasis making irrigated agriculture possible.
It is along one of these rivers that the Sechín Complex is located, just 12 kilometres inland from the Pacific Ocean.
The Sechin River and the Casma River meet along a valley and it’s along this valley that we find the ruins of multiple ancient settlements.
Among these ruined settlements we have; Sechín Alto in the East, Cerro Sechín in the south-west, Taukachi-Konkan in the north and Sechín Bajo in the north-west, together these settlements are known as the Sechín Complex.
The valley in which all these ruins are located was populated by the Casma Sechín culture for quite a long time before any stone construction began.
Join me in finding out all there is to know about the Sechín Complex!
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saggiasibilla · 3 years
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Il complesso di Chankillo: un antico calendario solare
Il complesso di Chankillo: un antico calendario solare
Quando studiamo le civiltà antiche e le loro costruzioni, come il complesso di Chankillo, la prima cosa di cui ci rendiamo conto è che erano assai meno “primitive” di quanto non ci piacerebbe credere (o non ci vorrebbero far credere). La seconda cosa, è che tanto quanto noi (anzi, forse più di noi) ponevano una grande attenzione all’astronomia. Pur senza mezzi tecnologici come quelli che…
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ancientorigins · 2 years
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scifigeneration · 4 years
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What is the summer solstice? An astronomer explains
by Stephen Schneider
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The Northern Hemisphere gets its biggest dose of daylight. Takmeng Wong and the CERES Science Team at NASA Langley Research Center, CC BY
The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88% of Earth’s people who live in the Northern Hemisphere. People around the world traditionally observe the change of seasons with bonfires and festivals and Fête de la Musique celebrations.
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The solstice is the 24-hour period during the year when the most daylight hits the Northern Hemisphere. Przemyslaw 'Blueshade' Idzkiewicz, CC BY-SA
Astronomers can calculate an exact moment for the solstice, when Earth reaches the point in its orbit where the North Pole is angled closest to the sun. That moment will be at 5:44 p.m. Eastern Time on June 20 this year. From Earth, the sun will appear farthest north relative to the stars. People living on the Tropic of Cancer, 23.5 degrees north of the Equator, will see the sun pass straight overhead at noon.
Six months from now the sun will reach its southern extreme and pass overhead for people on the Tropic of Capricorn, and northerners will experience their shortest days of the year, at the winter solstice.
The sun’s angle relative to Earth’s equator changes so gradually close to the solstices that, without instruments, the shift is difficult to perceive for about 10 days. This is the origin of the word solstice, which means “solar standstill.”
This slow shift means that June 20 is only about 1 second longer than June 19 at mid-northern latitudes. It will be about a week before there’s more than a minute change to the calculated amount of daylight. Even that’s an approximation – Earth’s atmosphere bends light over the horizon by different amounts depending on weather, which can introduce changes of more than a minute to sunrise and sunset times.
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Even today, visitors flock to see the solstice at Stonehenge. Stonehenge Stone Circle, CC BY
Monuments at Stonehenge in England, Karnak in Egypt, and Chankillo in Peru reveal that people around the world have taken note of the sun’s northern and southern travels for more than 5,000 years. From Stonehenge’s circle of standing stones, the sun will rise directly over an ancient avenue leading away to the northeast on the solstice. We know little about the people who built Stonehenge, or why they went to such great effort to construct it – moving multi-ton stones from rock outcrops as far as 140 miles away.
All this to mark the spot on the horizon where the sun returns each year to rest for a while before moving south again. Perhaps they, like us, celebrated this signal of the coming change of seasons.
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About The Author:
Stephen Schneider is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
This article is republished from our content partners over at The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. 
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listinsemanal · 2 years
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Los siete países con mayor patrimonio de la humanidad
Los siete países con mayor patrimonio de la humanidad
En el 2021, la Unesco inscribió 13 nuevos sitios culturales en su Lista del Patrimonio Mundial, entre ellos cinco de Iberoamérica: el observatorio arqueoastronómico de Chankillo, en Perú; la iglesia de Cristo Obrero y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, en Atlántida, Canelones (Uruguay); el sitio Roberto Burle Marx, al oeste de Río de Janeiro (Brasil); el asentamiento y momificación artificial de la…
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radiofolkperu · 2 years
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Chankillo : El observatorio astronómico más antiguo de América http://dlvr.it/SPWVt0
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