The present work is the result of the archaeological investigations carried out in the rural community of San Martin de Yanapiruro and Ichubamba, in the jurisdiction of the district of Chiara, province of Huamanga, region Ayacucho. It basically contains an informative value that gives to the community in general new records of closed settlements such as caves and rocky coats, associated with pictographs, lithic, ceramic and architecture. Based on these evidences we intend to reconstruct the prehispanic history of a high Andean population, in Relation to the surrounding environment.

This paper is a report from a superficial recognition, in a sector of the dust Huatata River basin. Includes the territories of the current Community campesina San Martin of Yanapiruro and Ichubamba, district of Chiara, province of Huamanga (Ayacucho). During the record surface identified a high number of huancas of different forms and sizes, distributed in the top and slopes of several hills between 3900 to 4300 meters above sea level. From the archaeological record and detailed description we examined on the basis of the information ethnohistorical and works relating to the topic to achieve new data to the community in general.

Se presenta parte de un trabajo de investigación que involucra a la arqueología de la Sierra surcentral del territorio andino, correspondiente al marco cronológico del Periodo Intermedio Temprano y Horizonte Medio. Acuchimay es uno de los asentamientos prehispánicos adyacentes al sitio arqueológico de Rudaqasa, localizado en el corazón de la actual ciudad de Ayacucho, que guarda el testimonio de una ocupación antigua de época Warpa y Wari, al igual que otros sitios, ubicados a lo largo de la cuenca del río Huarpa. El objetivo fundamental es conocer y recuperar toda la información posible existente para definir la importancia del sitio durante las épocas Warpa y Wari. El método empleado es descriptivo y síntesis a partir de la visita realizada alrededor de Acuchimay y del material cultural recuperados de la superficie; asimismo, se complementa con algunas colecciones particul...