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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Chip Stanish. Timecode In: 00:00:44. Timecode out: 00:14:07. Notes: Archaeology; Pucara culture. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Chip Stanish. Timecode In: 00:20:21. Timecode out: 00:25:07. Notes: Archaeology; Pucara culture. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Elizabeth Klarich. Timecode In: 00:29:03. Timecode out: 00:48:35. Notes: Archaeology; Pucara culture. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Archaelogical digging, sifting. Timecode In: 00:39:18. Timecode out: 00:42:15. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Neumann RSM 190 through Sonosax SX-M2 preamp into Sony TCDD8. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Peru Log of DAT #: 5 Engineer: Leo del Aguila Date: Nov. 12, 2001 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good 0:01: Feet crunching on gravel, walking. Mumbling in background. ¿que será...fromage....queso.¿ laughter. ¿yo digo wild women, sexy women. Okay.¿ More crunching. AC asks Ned how he wants to set up. Leo sets up chip. 0:45 AC So just ah, tell me where we are. 0:48 CS (chip Stanish) So we¿re at the sight of Pukara, which is ah, the major center in the Titicaca basin from around 400-500BC up to around 300AD, and it¿s a huge temple complex and residential area. we are obviously in the north of the Titicaca basin, we¿re just coming in from Juliaca. And this site was the dominant center for almost a half millennium. 1:13-1:24 Silence. 1:24 AC: (yelling) Ned? 1:25-3:02 Walking (on pavement? not too loud), background voices. 3:03 AC: (Panting) This is just a slight uphill walk. And we¿ve only come maybe 300 feet or so, but....it¿s just hard to do anything here. 3:15 CS: Not a lot of oxygen. Takes about two weeks to get used to it. 3:23 AC So this area as we look out over it here...this area as we look out over it here, this is a temple, this is a mound that they built? 3:35 CS Right, we¿re right on this artificial platform here and as you look behind us you can see these really large cut-stone walks. And those are from the temples themselves, the sunken courts, and we¿ll see those in a moment. And it dominated this whole valley you can see in front of us. This begins all the artificial construction, terraced, in front and the level of platform up here. 4:05 AC: Okay, let¿s go take a look. 4:10: Walking again. CS: ¿good to catch your breath.¿ AC ¿yeah.¿ CS: ¿good to catch your breath.¿ AC: ¿yeah, just stop on the way up and breathe a little. 4:19 CS: You can see all the pottery and the artifacts on the ground, just, ah, absolutely covered in different kinds of objects here, pieces of pottery, fragments of, fragments of bone. You can see other kinds of rocks that were brought in from outside like the salt and some anticites (sp?). and ah, (walking) as we go over here, let¿s, this one was excavated but it, and then they what we call backover it, they covered it back up, but the government has these two left open, so we can get a better understanding of what it looks like. 5:09 AC: So they¿ve excavated this and then they, they filled it back in to keep people from taking stuff? 5:17 CS: Yeah, it¿s always a trade-off between tourism needs and conservation and research. And I think it¿s important that they leave some open for, you know tourists and other, other visitors to have a real good feel for what¿s going on and appreciate the site. But it comes at a cost, of course. 5:39-6:07 Walking, feet crunching, occasional panting. Stopping. 6:09-6:58: Ned setting up people for TV shooting. 6:59 CS: So what you¿re looking at is, ah, a square sunken court in the middle, it¿s probably 20, 25 feet on a side, and then surrounding it are these, in an almost like a half-octagon shape, are these large cut-stone blocks¿reminiscent of Inca, but not quite Inca. This represents the highest expression of the s... (Notes truncated)
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- 15 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 14 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 15 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman