Nine petroglyphs were identified on a stairway located in the access arch to the Matara ecclesiastical complex, Antabamba province, Apurimac, all of them containing abstract figurations engraved on the andesitic rock. Due to the nature of its iconography, the fact that pre-inka engravings cut as ashlars, incorporated to an Inka structure (huaka = shrine) and, subsequently, to a colonial ecclesiastical complex, it is undeniable that these petroglyphs are pre-inka belonging to a secondary context. As far as it is known, they are the first petroglyphs registered in Antabamba province, where only pictographs were previously known. Unfortunately, most of them have disappeared in recent years due to a wrong ‘modernization’ concept undertaken by the municipal authorities of Matara and Huaquirca.

The location of huaka Guamansaui, belonging to the first ceque of Qollasuyu, was until now still unknown. This derives from the fact that it was searched at the site called Angostura (Ancoyacpunku), on the border of San Jerónimo and Saylla districts, province of Cusco. But in the past there was another place called Angostura de Muyna, where the geomorphological setting better fits the chronicle description. There is here a rock-huaka that corresponds to the characterization of Guamansaui made by the chronicler Polo de Ondegardo. This does not alter the assignment of the next two huakas (Guayra and Mayu), since this second Angostura is a windy area also crossed by the Huatanay River. Consequently, the last three huakas of the first ceque of Qollasuyu were located in this second Angostura (Muynapuncu). On the other hand, it is evident that this type of narrow passages or puncus (punkus, p...

This article presents the inventory and analysis of two types of glyptographic expressions present in the temple Santa Ana of Yauri, capital city of Espinar province, Cusco: Masons’ marks and cruciform signs. The function of the marks is well determined as identification and accounting signs of the ashlars delivered by different stonecutters. The presence of the crosses is more intriguing because they do not seem to have an apotropaic function, and may rather be related to devotional expressions. It is evident that the Masons’ marks are older than the crosses and would have been engraved between the 17th and 18th centuries, during the construction of the original church, on whose remains the current building was built in the second half of the 19th century. Many of these lapidary signs have been affected by the scraping perpetrated during the restoration of the ecclesiastical complex...