Ilustrar el pasado precolonial andino: el caso de Jorge Zegarra Galdós

Abstract

Andean precolonial archeology is a collective product in which various characters participate from the excavation to the publication of the results. Within this group, little attention has been paid to the subaltern characters, such as illustrators and note-takers (who kept field diaries). This article presents and discusses the work of an extraordinary but virtually unknown illustrator and note-taker, Jorge Zegarra. This particular case examines how precolonial archaeology was done in Peru during a relatively unstudied period (late 1940s - early 1960s), focusing on one of Zegarra’s most important unpublished works: his Huallamarca notebooks. These are fundamental for understanding the archaeology and history of archaeology in Lima.