Oliver, José R; Laporte, Luc; (2022) Megaliths in America: Introduction. In: Laporte, Luc and Large, Jean-Marc and Nespoulous, Laurent and Scarre, Chris and Steimer-Herbet, Tara, (eds.) Megaliths of the World. (pp. 121-129). Archaeopress Publishing: Oxford, UK.

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Abstract

Apart from the San Agustín de Huila site, which has long been part of studies on megaliths in the World (Joussaume 1985, 2003; Mohen 1989) and is also discussed within this volume, the American continent is rarely cited on this subject in specialized literature. As the map in Fig. 1 shows, sites with megaliths in South America and the Caribbean, either as free-standing monoliths (in rows or clusters) or as part of architectural features, are far more frequent than is generally known among Old World archaeologists. Indeed, one of the oldest records of megaliths observed outside Europe concerns the north coast of Perú, in Huanchuco, where an Agustínian priest noted in around 1560: ‘Encontramos en esta región una especie de menhires y betilos cuya relación de que en cada pueblo había una huaca o ídolo la cual adoraban y tenían por ojo del pueblo y a la cual rendían culto para que los cuide sus (chácaras) con son su estancia y le dan chicha, sanco y cuyes para ser fiesta’.

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