Project

In addition to including Chankillo on the 2010 Watch, WMF is participating in the Chankillo Revalorization and Sustainable Development Project. (...)

In addition to including Chankillo on the 2010 Watch, WMF is participating in the Chankillo Revalorization and Sustainable Development Project. WMF’s partners in this initiative are the Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas (IDARQ), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Peru, and with financial support from the ANTAMINA mining company, the British Peruvian Cultural Institute, and OHL, a transnational corporation renovating the Pan-American Highway that runs by the site. Financial support has also been pledged from the government of the Ancash region, where Chankillo is located.

Since 2011, the project team has been undertaking excavations to research and document the original foundations, construction process, and archaeological layers, as well as establishing the legal delimitation of the site for a potential nomination to the UNESCO World Heritage List. In 2012, CyArk carried out laser scanning and mapping to develop a detailed 3-D model of Chankillo. A social component, called “Public Archaeology,” is being implemented wherein community members and other stakeholders participate in workshops, polls, and focus groups to help determine long-term management and educational proposals.

In January 2013, Chankillo was included in Peru’s Tentative List for inscription on the World Heritage List.