RESIDENTIAL SUB-COMPLEX C5

Residences located in the periphery (Sector X), in the southern area of the “Integración Social street”, which leads to the core area of Caral’s Urban Center. There are three residences, a central one and two lateral ones, with quadrangular plan, which were constantly remodeled. One was built on a stone platform to highlight the hierarchy of the residents; the other two, directly on the ground. The highest room was accessed through a built-in staircase. Fire pits and benches were found in spaces and rooms of these houses.

SIZE

Height: 2 m / N-S: 18 m / E-W: 28 m /

Surface: 504 m2

Urban Role

Houses of the Residential Sub-complex C5 were part of the periphery (Sector X), of Caral’s Urban Center. They were aligned to the residential complexes and public buildings in the “Integración Social street”.

Funci N

The architectonic design, the building techniques and recovered materials –food remains– evidence that these buildings were used as residences. However, people living in the central house, built on a stone platform, should have had a higher hierarchy than their neighbors. Multifunctional spaces, reception spaces with fire pit, deposits and other resting areas are found in each residence.

Residential sub-complex of the “Integración Social street” C5.

Building Technique

During the first occupation they built quincha residences directly on the natural ground. They used pebbles for the benches and internal dividing walls. They plastered everything with beige and yellow clay, and painted it white.

Afterwards, they covered the rooms with pebble and thick gravel filling. Over it, they built a platform with cut stone and some pebbles, which supported the quincha recincts they then built.