This issue of Allpanchis offers articles that deal —in an original way with Peruvian archeology, which tends to focus its efforts on civilizations and cultures during the pre-Hispanic period— with actors and spaces that have not yet been sufficiently analyzed. The African population in the viceregal estates, the islands of the Peruvian sea and the second settlement of the Spanish city of San Miguel de Piura are the topics that the contributors to this issue on Andean archeology occupy.

Hope, optimism and commitment were part of the values ​​deposited in the foundation of our Allpanchis magazine. Perhaps the best evidence of this is the name itself, which, in its Spanish version, intones the psalm: «our land will give its fruit», a profound interpellation that, in addition to the clear theological and pastoral agenda of its time, can be read as the commitment to the academic potential of our heritage. It did not take many years for the intellectual achievements of the research body of what was the Andean Pastoral Institute (IPA) to begin to be reaped, both companies run by a cohort of bishops, priests, nuns and pastoral agents. Within the research projects of the IPA, aimed at understanding the social processes and practices of its time from a religious and scientific perspective, Allpanchis played a key role in that it offered a space for reflection aimed at the ...