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Cerro Piccu

Title:
Cerro Piccu
Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Date:
1981
Site:
Cuzco (Peru)
Cusco (Peru)
Identifier:
ISB_00522
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Inka astronomy
Inca astronomy and archaeology
Sunrises & sunsets
Inca astronomy
Archaeological sites
Inka observations of the zenith passage of the sun
Description:
Pillars on Cerro Picchu could have been easily used to observe the sun set as it moved north and south and back again through its annual cycle.
Series:
Zenith sun series : 119
Bibliography:
Isbell, Billie Jean. "Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics." In Ethno-Astronomy and Archaeo-Astronomy in the American Tropics, edited by A. F. Aveni and G. Urton. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 385 (1982): 353-363. URL: http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2193 : http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2193
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Zenith: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/zenith
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Rights:
This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.

About the collection

This collection of materials is derived from Professor Billie Jean Isbell's 40 years of research in the Andes, primarily in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho and specifically in the village of Chuschi, Peru, and the surrounding region of the River Pampas Valley. Included in this collection are approximately 1500 photographs, thirteen songs, Professor Isbell's ethnography, To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, as well as selected publications.