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10.600 years before Christ:
In the beginnings of the
civilization, the first inhabitants of the Province
of Yungay made to arise and to develop the oldest ancestral
culture of Peru and of the American continent. In
denominated today "the Guitarrero Cave”, in 1969,
the North American Thomas F. Lynch (University of
Cornell, USA) he discovered very old cultural
vestiges reason for what this place is considered “one of the great testimonies of the origin of
agriculture in América”. During the stratigráphic
excavations complex I with cultural occupation
between 10.950 and 10.230 BC was distinguished
(Sample GX 1859). The Guitarrero Cave is located to
the foot of the Black Mountain range, in the
Province of Yungay (District of Shupluy), near 6 km
to the south of the missing city, altitude of 2.580
mals, to 150 mts of the River Santa.
The samples of peper and red pepper found in
the Guitarrero Cave
have their wild ancestors in the Eastern slopes of
the andes, which makes suppose that the old
inhabitants of these land traveled thousands years
ago the transverse axis Ancash -Huanuco giving
origin to the towns of Kotosh (Huánuco), Chavin de
Huantar (Huari), among other towns.
1.000 BC to 800 AC:
The
Pre-Incas
towns bloom
de
Huansakay,
Huarca, Huamancayan, Marcayoc,
in a radius of 10 km from the old
City of Yungay;
Etzahuain and
Ojotunan
between Mancos, Musho, Tumpa and
Huashcao;
Jatoviejo,
Kisuar and Collo-Jirca
in Yanama;
Uchuscoto
in Cascapara and others.
After the year 800 AC, the towns of Yungay were part
of the Huaylas Culture.
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