The construction of the Colón Theater meant a contribution to the urban evolution of Lima, quickly becoming an important public space for social interaction since its inauguration in 1914. The diffusion of national and international theatrical performances and films took place in its crowded interior with an audience from all social sectors. In its evolution during the 20th century, the Colón reflected, like the rest of Lima’s theaters, architectural progress. The reconstruction carried out in 1941 was no coincidence, to be in keeping with the avant-garde and the harmony of the urban environment where it was located. Through unpublished sources, this article focuses on revealing how was the link that maintained this historical monument as a public space in Lima in the last century with urban progress, until the moment when it began to lose significance and fall into oblivion.

The battle of Ayacucho took place on December 9, 1824, and meant the consolidation of the proclamation of independence made in 1821. Given the proximity of the comme- moration of the first centenary of this historical event, Lima got prepared to receive the foreign delegations that would come to witness the various celebrations. In this context, the construction of a modern hotel that would house visitors was prioritized, with the Hotel Bolívar being inaugurated in 1924. This research analyzes the process followed for such a monumental work to be executed and, through primary sources, will demonstrate the relationship between architecture and patriotic celebrations.

This research analyzes the importance of the construction of Dos de Mayo Hospital in the mid-nineteenth century in the progress and improvement of health in Lima. The need to build it arose as a result of the increase in the population in the city, the growth in the number of patients, the arrival of yellow fever at the beginning of 1868 and the lack of comfort in the hospitals in operation. Dos de Mayo represented the strengthening of the professional and scientific sense of institutions of this type. Through the review of hemerographic sources of the time, the concern to reform the hospital service and improve patient care is observed; in other words, to guarantee one of the fundamental rights of every human being, the right to life.

​This research note updates earlier work that focused on electoral behavior among the urban poor in Lima, Perú. The previous research stopped with the 1983 municipal elections. The data utüized here extend the analysis through the 1985 presidential election and the 1986 municipal election. The results largely reinforce the hypotheses originally proposed for explaining the observed vascillating support for the left by low-income urban voters.

The genetic diversity of three populations designated as ecotypes of golden berry (Physalis peruaviana) is studied using protein quantification and polymorphism of seed storage proteins (SSPs) by denaturating polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). As well, biochemical characteristics of seed proteins were identified. The populations were from San Pablo province (Agroandino ecotype), Celendín province (Celendino ecotype) and Cajabamba province (Cajabamba ecotype), all from Cajamarca Department. There was not difference among the three populations based on protein quantification. Globulins (82.4%) were the majority fraction followed for albumins (13.9%), glutelins (3.7%) and prolamins (0.7%). Only albumins showed polymorphism, showing 21 proteins between ~6.5 to ~45 kDa and three different electrophoretic profiles, which were share among the three populations. Legumins and vicilin...

In this article we discuss one of the more significant contributions of Craig Morris for the explanation of the Inca Urbanism. Although Craig Morris didn’t escape to the use of general theoretical models and basic concepts derived from historic-cultural and procesualist perspectives, popular in his epoch, given his context of academic formation, thanks to the continual test of his approaches against the archaeological reality, the development of ad hoc methodology and a wide standpoint about the pre-capitalists social phenomena he could overcome such models and, later, offer us archaeological explanations more coherent with the Inca social reality.

In this article we propose that the archaeological site of Chavin de Huántar was the materialization and center of a Andean theocratic state. To give support to such proposal we argue a serie of archaeological indicators which ones raise from the accumulated and updated information as well as own observations. With such proposal inspired in the historical materialism we expect generate a discussion focused on the archaeological objects and that attend to the particular material conditions and to the historical trajectory of the central andes.

After several investigations in Huaca del Sol (Uhle 1915; Hastings and Moseley 1975, Moseley 1975; Pozorski 1979 Narro Gallardo and 1992, Herrera and Ramirez 1992; Herrera and Chauchat 2003), the archaeological project Huacas de Moche (Moche Temples) initiated a research program that began in 2011. In this article, we present the excavations results in section 2 of Huaca del Sol from the systemic approach by Niklas Luhmann, which helped us to conceptualize and define our procedure to the particular demarcated issues. The conclusions, we present, show in first place, a long building autopoietic process, which has defined a three-phase construction sequence (last, penultimate and antepenultimate. The penultimate phase consists of two sub phases, which would indicate a complex building functionality associated at the beginning to domestic-residential activities and then to palace activities...

In this paper we show a serial of jerarchized approachs that we expect help to define and to delimit concret and conceptually the real, methodological and epistemological borders of the society knowed in the archaeological literature as Ychma, which one was settled specificly in the Lurin and Rimac valleys at the central peruvian coast during the prehispanic period called Late Intermediate (circa 900 DNE- 1470 DNE) but survived in many socioeconomic and sociopolitical aspects to the Inca occupation of the area. To carry out such approachs we have based in our knowledge of the social materiality described as Ychma y, above all, in it dialectical negation in the south part of the central coast recognized for us in the area of the Mala river valley, where we have almost a decade of fieldwork and understanding of the social phenomenae both intra and inter valley.

We disscuse the two last prehispanic ocuppations in the lower Mala valley as a consequence our archaeological research developemented to the present. Specifically, we discusse the Inca Occupation as a dialectical process that supossed the confrontation of two societies: the local and the invaders in an area previously assumed as a “social vacuum” in the prehispanic central coast.

This paper describes the historical development of a theoretical trend in Peru that we will cal! Marxist Archaeology. This archaeology is based in the classical writings ofMarx and Engels, althought like we will see many of the authors made different readings of these authors, not necesarilly rooted on the onthology and epysthemology of Dialectical Mmaterialism. In order to get our aim, we loca te this kind of archaeo­logy inside of its production context as a means to understand in a better way its sociological and ideologi­cal perspectives. We will perceive throught our historygraphical analysis that every time that we try to des­cribe any of the studied moments of this marxist archaeology, we willfind one author monopolizing the archaeological scene. We believe that in the case of the first and third moments, this situation was possible because the authors mentioned were organicall...

Con este nuevo número, la revista Arqueología y Sociedad ha entrado en una nueva época. Desde este número, los manuscritos recibidos han atravesado por todo un meticuloso proceso de revisión por pares externos. Vale decir, los artículos ahora publicados han sido evaluados de la manera más objetiva que tenemos a disposición en la academia. Asimismo, la revista cuenta con un nuevo comité editorial integrado por investigadores renombrados del Perú y del extranjero. Además, gracias al apoyo del Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Posgrado de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, ahora poseemos una nueva plataforma virtual para que los autores y revisores puedan enviar sus textos y evaluaciones. Todo lo anterior se hace con el objetivo principal de lograr la indexación de Arqueología y Sociedad en los index Scopus o Web of Science, los estándares más prestigiosos de las r...

Con satisfacción y alegría les presentamos el nuevo número de nuestra revista científica y académica Arqueología y Sociedad. El lanzamiento de este nuevo número coincide con las celebraciones del 103 aniversario de la fundación de nuestro museo. Para esta ocasión hemos decidió rendir homenaje a la primera directora del museo la Dra. Rebeca Carrión Cachot quien, además, fue la primera arqueóloga profesional peruana. Como parte de las celebraciones y el homenaje a ella, además, inauguramos en el Museo de Arqueología la muestra fotográfica temporal “Rebeca Carrión Cachot: La Primera Arqueóloga Peruana” con una selección de fotografías recuperadas de sus archivos existentes en el museo y de colecciones privadas como las de su pariente y amigo del museo, el Dr. Ernesto Nava Carrión. De esta manera, rendimos nuestro agradecimiento y respeto al trabajo de tan destacada ...

Este nuevo número de Arqueología y Sociedad llega en medio de una serie de mejo-ras que estamos realizando en beneficio de nuestra revista. Para elevar los estándares requeridos por la academia, hemos realizado mejoras en la página web, plataforma y mecanismos de revisión por pares externos. Asimismo, estamos elevando a 7 la cantidad de artículos por número. De esta manera, estamos orientando nuestra revista al logro de los estándares más altos de calidad que nuestra universidad y nuestra comunidad científica nos exige.

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This paper describes the finding of an extraordinary offering deposited in the final layers of ritual entombment of the sunken patio of the main Paracas building in Cerro del Gentil, located in the mid-valley of Chincha, peruvian southern coast. Because to its excellent state of preservation and the high quality of the elements that constituting this offering, it allows us to delve into the ritual practices developed in the context of an activity of utmost importance to the users of the Cerro del Gentil building just prior to its abandonment during the III century before Christ.

This article presents a synthesis of the main investigations and archaeological evidence related to the Paracas phenomenon of the southern Peruvian coast, which developed during much of the first millennium before our era (800-200 BC). The main investigations, the chronology, the territory covered and the main settlements associated with the material culture linked to this social phenomenon are presented and discussed. Finally, a model of social explanation is presented to understand the social dynamics that allowed the appearance of what is known in archaeological literature as the «Paracas Culture».

The main objective of this article is to present a synthesis of the various contributions that national and foreign researchers have made to the pre-Hispanic archaeology of the Chicama Valley, located in the Department of La Libertad, Peru. Through the analysis of the archaeological literature published to date, a balance and critical evaluation of current knowledge about the occupational history of the lower and middle Chicama valley. Finally, we outline new problems and working hypotheses for future archaeological investigations of this rich valley of the Peruvian north coast.

In this article, we present an overview of the archaeological theory developed in Peru in the last two decades. For that purpose, first, the place and nature of the theory in Peruvian archaeological practice is considered. Secondly, the political and economic contexts in which the archaeological practice of recent years has developed are briefly described. Third, an outlook of the archaeological theories used in our country is described, focusing on the main developed topics of study. Fourth, other relevant theoretical topics that have been developed in Peruvian archaeology are reviewed. Finally, some issues that deserve further theoretical development in Peruvian archaeology are introduced.