Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2
Period Medieval·Regional culture Americas-Mound·🇵🇪 Peru Region 2, Peru
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About Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2
Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 in Peru Region 2, Peru is a Neolithic earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing. Recorded context — Period: Period Medieval; Culture: Regional culture Americas-Mound; Field status: partially excavated; Materials: sandstone, plaster; Condition: partially preserved.
Why it mattersKey Regional culture Americas-Mound earthwork with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Collapse cause
- 02Chronology and phasing
Theories
- 01Observatory
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2800 BCE
- Period
- Period Medieval
- Culture
- Regional culture Americas-Mound
- Purpose
- earthwork ritual/settlement purpose for Americas-Mound
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1942
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 1200 CE major extension
Major expansion / refurbishment at Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2
c. 2800 BCE
Initial construction / first occupation at Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2
1920 excavation
Modern rediscovery and scientific excavation of Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2
On the ground
Structures & features
14.2990° S · 10.7106° E · 1455 m · 3 mapped features
- Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 — Principal Rampartrampartrampart at Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 — primary structure14.2987° S · 10.7102° E
- Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 — Northern Ditchditchditch at Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 — primary structure14.2999° S · 10.7093° E
- Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 — Entrance Annex 3entranceentrance at Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 — subsidiary complex14.2972° S · 10.7096° E