CADE Innovations: Stay tuned for ‘El Nuevo Peru de Antes!’

By Nicholas Asheshov ~ Special to Peruvian Times ~ As business leaders meet in Cusco this weekend to focus on “Innovation” at the Annual Executive Conference, CADE, from the countryside of the Urubamba valley the author proposes looking back for truly radical and practical, high-tech innovation. Ancient Peru was one of the half-dozen centers of [...]

HISTORY OF PERU SERIES – Part 10: The Big Picture —3500 BC – 500 AD

By Paul Goulder – Special to Peruvian Times — During the past year the Peruvian Times (see links below) has published a series of articles on the History of Peru spanning the years, very approximately, 3500 BC to 500 AD. At the beginning of this period humans were starting to live in towns, to build [...]

HISTORY OF PERU SERIES – PART 9: Metallurgy, Jewelry and Gold

By Paul Goulder –Special to the Peruvian Times — This week we examine what tools the historian possesses to analyze the impact of new technologies, particularly in metallurgy. In terms of a timeline, this part starts in an age of copper and ends as bronze makes an appearance. But all the time it is gold that steals [...]

HISTORY OF PERU SERIES – Part 5: THE PUCLLANA PERIOD

A.D. 200 –  650/800 -   The Lima Culture: Betwixt or Amidst the Moche and the Nasca By Paul Goulder  –The fifth of a series of articles on Peru’s history, incorporating stories from the Peruvian Times archives, as well as links to videos, audio and other external sources to provide a rich background of information.  –  Two seemingly archaic [...]

Genetic evidence links Peru’s ancient Mochica culture to Japanese, Siberian and Taiwanese peoples

Long-term mitochondrial DNA analysis of remains recovered from well-preserved Moche sacrificial victims reveals close ties between the ancient culture and the populations of Ecuador, Colombia, Siberia, Taiwan and the Aino, an ethnic group indigenous to Japan’s Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin, El Comercio reported Thursday. Samples taken from sacrifical victims and other mummies — [...]

Spain returns pre-Columbian artifacts from Patterson Collection to Peru

Forty-five pre-Columbian artifacts, hidden in a warehouse in Spain for over 10 years, were returned to Peru by the Spanish cultural patrimony police, reported Peru’s National Culture Institute Monday. The returned objects – mostly belonging to the Moche culture, but also to the Sican, Cupisnique and Wari cultures – include five necklaces, six nose rings, [...]