Kotosh (English spelling)

Japanese: コトシュ - ことしゅ(英語表記)Kotosh
Kotosh (English spelling)

This ruin is located on the right bank of the Higueras River, upstream of the Huayaga River, in the northern highlands of Peru. It is located about 1 km west of Huánuco City, at an altitude of about 2000 meters. It has been excavated three times since 1960 by an academic research team from the University of Tokyo. The period corresponding to the oldest non-pottery layer is called the Mito period, and the Temple of the Crossed Hands and the Temple of the Small Niche, which are among the oldest temples in the central Andes, belong to this period. It is said to date to around 2000 BC, followed by the Huayrahirca period, which has distinctive tropical forest culture-type pottery. It then passed through the Kotosh period, then the Chavin period, and then the Saharapata and Higueras periods, but cultural development stagnated after the Christian era. Currently, the non-pottery temple is preserved, but it has fallen into disrepair due to poor management.

[Yoshiro Masuda]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ペルー北高地、ワヤガ川上流イゲーラス川の右岸にある遺跡。ワヌコ市の西約1キロメートルの地点にあり、標高約2000メートル。1960年から3回にわたり、東京大学学術調査団によって発掘された。もっとも古い無土器層に対応する時代はミト期とよばれ、中央アンデスで最古の神殿の一つである「交叉(こうさ)した手の神殿」「小ニッチの神殿」がこれに属する。年代は紀元前2000年前後とされ、それに続いて、特徴ある熱帯林文化系の土器をもったワイラヒルカ期がくる。その後コトシュ期を経て、チャビン期に至り、さらにサハラパタ期、イゲーラス期と続くが、紀元後になると文化の発展は停滞する。現在、無土器時代の神殿が保存されているが、管理がよくないため荒廃している。

[増田義郎]

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