SITE DIRECTORY

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In 1999 Oskar Burger, a CSU graduate student, conducted a pilot survey in a 2.5 km2 survey block around the village of Porco which revealed 78 sites. These were located by a three-person team walking transects spaced at 5 meter intervals and were plotted on 1:50,000 topographic maps. The majority of these sites date to Inka or Colonial times, and almost all relate to the extraction and processing of minerals or the support of workers and administrators engaged in these activities. They include mines, ore-grinding and smelting facilities, and storage complexes, as well as administrative and living quarters.

Click on the site names to see photos, maps, and descriptions of the seven sites that have been mapped and tested thus far.

Funding for this project provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Curtiss T. Brennan and Mary G. Brennan Foundation, and Colorado State University.

Please direct any comments or questions about the project to the director, Mary Van Buren.

Web site designed by Andrew Mueller