Ceremonial plaza, Huaca Cao Viejo

The ceremonial plaza at Huaca Cao Viejo was documented by El Brujo Archaeological Complex staff following a virtual training workshop with CyArk supported by the U.S. Embassy in Peru. Documentation was completed with terrestrial and aerial photogrammetry. For approximately 600 years, the Huaca Cao Viejo was an important ceremonial center likely used for religious and ceremonial activities. Although the current building measures 120 x 100 m and is 30 m high, this was not always the case as this Huaca is only the latest of at least five previous iterations, built one on top of the other over a period of six centuries. The main facade, the one that faces a large ceremonial plaza measures 140 x 75 m, and was a space with a great capacity for gathering people. Groups from different sides of the valley and the north coast would have come to the Huaca and witnessed the bright iconographic and ceremonial display. Even today we can see remains of the oldest facades, hidden behind the most famous and late, with religious expressions of the time strongly based on repetition and tradition. Two main characters within the Mochica iconographic discourse are noted in these representations: El life and El Decapitador. External Project Link: https://cyark.org/projects/huaca-cao-viejo/exhibit Additional Info Link: https://www.elbrujo.pe/estudiantes/caoviejo

在由美国驻秘鲁大使馆支持、与赛阿尔克（CyArk）合作举办的虚拟培训工作坊结束后，布鲁霍考古综合体（El Brujo Archaeological Complex）工作人员对曹维约瓦卡（Huaca Cao Viejo）的仪式广场完成了数字化记录。本次记录采用地面与航空摄影测量技术完成。

在约600年的历史中，曹维约瓦卡一直是重要的仪式中心，大概率用于各类宗教与仪式活动。尽管当前该遗址的建筑尺寸为120×100米、高30米，但这并非其原貌：该土丘是至少5层前代遗址逐层叠建而成的产物，整个建造过程耗时六个世纪，现存结构仅为最新的一层。

面向大型仪式广场的主立面尺寸为140×75米，该空间具备极强的人群聚集承载能力。来自河谷两岸与北海岸的族群曾齐聚该土丘，见证绚丽的图像与仪式展演。即便时至今日，我们仍能看到最古老立面的遗迹——它们被最知名的晚期立面所遮蔽，当时的宗教表达高度依赖重复与传统。

在这些图像中，还出现了莫切（Mochica）图像叙事体系中的两位核心角色：生命之神与斩首者。

外部项目链接：https://cyark.org/projects/huaca-cao-viejo/exhibit
附加信息链接：https://www.elbrujo.pe/estudiantes/caoviejo

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集聚焦于秘鲁Huaca Cao Viejo考古遗址的仪式广场，包含地面和空中摄影测量数据，总数据量约27 GB，采集于2021年。数据集由El Brujo考古综合体与CyArk合作完成，旨在记录这一具有600年历史的仪式中心，为文化遗产保护和研究提供高质量数字资源。