Lima, Peru-Andina News Agency Elder Cruz Mostasero and his colleagues at Peru’s National University Santiago Antunez de Mayolo have discovered traces of Huaylas settlement, the report said. Advertisement 1200 in the Cordillera Negra Mountains of western Peru. So far, researchers have excavated pottery, funerary architecture and monoliths, in addition to metal production workshops with furnaces and grinding stones used to process raw materials. Drainage systems and pathways connecting buildings were also uncovered, showing that the Huaylas, who were primarily camel herders, engaged in urban planning. “We also found spaces dedicated to the processing of camelid wool and a large number of spindle whorls, which are used to turn wool into thread,” Cruz Mostacero said. Animals may also have provided a means of transportation to trade products with other groups. Cruz Mostasero concluded that the site was later occupied by the Inca and was probably abandoned in the early colonial period. To read about a mysterious series of holes created by the pre-Inca Empire in Peru’s coastal desert, visit “return to snake mountain“
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