During the years 1998 and 2001, The Chincha Archaeological Investigations Program, of the Andean Institute of Archaeological Studies – INDEA, has focused part of their investigations in a sector of the monumental complex of Tambo de Mora, composed by a superposition of evidences from metallurgical workshops. These were used to purify and heat the metal, and to making the final products. The use, there were remodelations and redistributions of this space. The analysis indicates that the metallurgical work was concentrated on silver and, probably, gold

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The San Cristobal's Shullupacanga hill, forros an outstanding landscape environ­ment, it is placed on Chiquian's proximities, on the front strip of Aija. The Shullupacanga presents itself as a referent of prehispanic occupations with relevant characteristics for populational, funerary and symbolic studies. This site is placed on the middle and high hill's slope. Even though researchers have recovered infor­mation about an associated pictographs cemetery, there are no related studies from the region; therefore the information is not suitable for generalization. The follo­ wing article widely depicts the recovered data and, furthermore, proposes a debate regarding the implications that this kind of information could bring in order to understand the social relations which formally express this activities on the landscape.