Toquepala Caves

Toquepala Caves are located near Toquepala mine, about 154 km from the city of Tacna, in the extreme southeast of Peru [1]. They are notable for a number of rock paintings [1]. The best known of them is the cave named Abrigo del Diablo [1]. The caves were seasonally occupied [1]. The caves have rock art of gatherer-hunters who are inferred to have lived in the caves about 10,000 years ago [1]. There are more than 50 rock paintings drawn by the inhabitants of the caves of the Palaeolithic age of which 30 were studied [1]. These scenes depict armed people hunting the guanaco and Andean religious symbols [1]. The scene depicted is of hunting by the humans who are corralling and killing a group of guanacos [1].