We got a glimpse of the lives of the locals today as we walked through the suburbs to a historical site.
It is hard to know what lies behind the high walls, barbed wire, electric fences, cameras and spotlights but it isn't mud bricks 😉.
We walked through an affluent area of Lima to an ancient site amongst new appartments.
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| Huaca Pucliana |
Here the locals were rather less concerned with theft than with gathering food. This mud brick administrative and community complex dates from around 500AD. They built with hand made, sun dried mud bricks. These were layed vertically to make the structure more flexible as a response to earthquakes. New regimes would flatten and start again leading to the great height of solid building. How did mud bricks survive? We assume they were covered in by more soil and also it doesn't rain here! We are told rain only falls as a sort of mist, which actually strengthens the bricks.
It was built by the "Lima" people and then reused by two subsequent civilizations, all before the Incas.
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| A burial chamber |
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| Then and now |
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| How? |
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| Protecting an apartment |
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