La música en el Perú prehispánico, como en toda sociedad, está basada principalmente en la necesaria invención y uso de los instrumentos musicales. En nuestro caso, sabemos que las flautas de pan, cuá- les sean estas: antaras, sikus, zampoñas, etc., han sido los principales artefactos sonoros que han dado vida a la música andina. En el presente documento indagamos los primeros vestigios arqueológicos de las flautas de Pan considerando otros aerófonos andinos de manera adyacente.

In 2007, the archaeologist Luis Chero Zurita discovers the tomb number 14 of the “Warrior Priest” of Sipan Moche belonging to the elite, and their grave goods is twenty sound artifacts (pututos and horns) and musical instruments (flutes bread or “antaras”). From the perspective of research proposal, developed in this article an exploration of various tonnage musicological aspects of the panpipes and its relationship with the character mentioned, raising questions and clues for future research needed.

Music in pre-Hispanic Peru, from the period of regional growth or also called the Early Intermediate is represented mainly by the Mochica and Nazca societies and also means the maximum development of the musical instruments based on the most symbolic aerophones of the Andean world: the flutes of Bread (antaras) and “quenas”. Thus, the Mochicas would have known (invented?) The complementary dual Pan flute and the Nazca society, the “antaras” in play separated by halves (octave distance) in addition to an unequaled technique in ceramics for the elaboration of these instruments.