 Excavations at the site of Jisk'a Iru Muqu in 2002 | |
  Shown within Peru | |
| Alternative name | Jiskairumoko |
|---|---|
| Location | Puno Region, Peru |
| Region | Ilave Valley, Lake Titicaca Basin |
| Coordinates | 16°12′40″S 69°45′50″W / 16.21111°S 69.76389°W |
| Altitude | 3,890 m (12,762 ft)[1] |
| Type | open-air village site[1] |
| Area | 0.4 ha (0.99 acres) |
| History | |
| Founded | Approximately 3,400 BC[1] |
| Abandoned | Approximately 1,600 BC[1] |
| Periods | Late Archaic to Early Formative |
| Cultures | South-Central Highland |
Jisk'a Iru Muqu (Aymara, jisk'a small, iru a type of grass, (Festuca orthophylla), muqu knot; joint of a part of the reed,[2] also spelled Jiskairumoko, Jisk'airumoko) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site 54 kilometers (34 mi) south-east of Puno, Peru. The site lies in the mountains at elevation 4,115 meters (13,500 feet), in the Aymara community of Jachacachi, adjacent to the Ilave River drainage, of the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru. Occupation of Jisk'a Iru Muqu spans from the Late Archaic to the Formative.
- ^ a b c d Rumold, Claudia Ursula; et al. (2016). "Late Archaic–Early Formative period microbotanical evidence for potato at Jiskairumoko in the Titicaca Basin of southern Peru". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (48): 13672–13677. Bibcode:2016PNAS..11313672R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1604265113. PMC 5137686. PMID 27849582.
- ^ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)