Economic Aspects

Lurihuasi is strategically located, in relation to the road connecting with the Huaura coastline. Its residents had a mixed subsistence economy, based both on marine resources as well as on their farmland production, and they also used the ecological area of the hills.

Deer horns are frequently found and recovered in buildings’ excavations. Farming production, developed on the site’s lower area -where many puquiales (springs) providing year-round drinking water are found- included avocado, achira (arrowroot), cotton, mate, guava, pacae and squash. Digging sticks used for these purposes, which measure 35 cm long in average and are heavily worn out in of their ends, have been recovered.

Regarding the marine products recovered in the site, anchovy (70% of the samples), sardine, sea bass, halibut, bonito and mackerel.

In relation to the exchange, a road network that would have connected Lurihuasi with other sites has been identified: from the gully, southeast of the site there is a route naturally defined in the area relief, which goes to the coastline, towards the Medio Mundo and Vichama lagoons, archaeological site located in the Huaura coastline. This route crossed the hilly areas. To reach the Áspero urban center, in the lower Super valley, the resident had to use the valley route.

Due to its location in the Supe valley, it is likely that Lurihuasi worked as a storage center of productive surpluses, which were then distributed to other urban centers in Supe and its area of influence.