Th e Cerro del Oro style from the Middle Horizon in the Asia Valley

Towards aims of the Early Intermediate Period and the beginnings of the Middle Horizon, arises an innovator style at the south central coast, the Cerro del Oro style, whose name drift of the place of the same name located in the low valley of Cañete. Th is pottery reunites to novel forms and iconography originated on diverse traditions. We rose that the Cerro del Oro pottery style is exclusive from Cañete Valley and distributed at the valley of Asia, arriving even till Mala and Chilca. At the valley of Asia it is associated to a series of housing places located in both margins of the valley from the coast to the middle valley. Th e Cerro del Oro style is associated to an architectonic pattern, cotton textiles and funerary patterns which are diff erent from the ones that appears parallels at the central coast. In the same way some anthropological characteristics seems to indicate that those people belong to a diff erent group. We consider that there exist characteristics to establish their space identifi cation strongly develop at this period whose main centre was located at the Cañete Valley.

Key Words: Middle Horizon, Wari, Cerro del Oro, Asia valley, Peru.