Purunllacta, Soloco

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Region Amazonas Region, Chachapoyas Province, Soloco District

Purunllacta [1] or Purum Llacta [2] (possibly from Quechua purum, purun savage, wild / wasteland, llaqta place (village, town, city, country, nation) [3] [4] is an archaeological site in Peru. It is situated in the Amazonas Region, Chachapoyas Province, Soloco District, southwest and near the archaeological site of Purum Llaqta of the Cheto District. [2]

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References

  1. Crandall, James (2016). "Household Practice and Spatial Fashioning in the Chachapoya Community of Purunllacta de Soloco". The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida.
  2. 1 2 Olivier Fabre, Jean Loup Guyot, Rodolfo Salas Gismondi, Manuel Malaver Pizarro, Ermanno Maniero, Los chachapoya de la región de Soloco: Chaquil, del sitio de hábitat a la cueva funeraria, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines / 2008, 37 (2): 271-292. Retrieved on March 29, 2014
  3. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  4. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)

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