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Global Heritage Network Update


2011 has been an exciting year for GHN, with a lot of press coverage including National Geographic!  Since launching in March, membership has grown to nearly 900 archaeologists, conservators and other professionals, over 70 site-based and thematic discussion groups have been started in GHN Community, more than 250 high-resolution satellite images have been uploaded to GHN Sites, and the GHN Library now features almost 1500 documents related to site management, preservation, risk assessment and other relevant topics.  More than a dozen Site Conservation Assessment (SCA) reports have also been completed and uploaded - check Featured Contributions in the GHN Community and Featured Sites in GHN Sites to read them.



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GHF New Video

Ciudad Perdida, Colombia Video

Ciudad PerdidaCiudad Perdida is located high in the coastal range on northern Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The site is comprised of a series of masonry and rammed earth platforms constructed along mountain ridges that today are threatened by erosion, destabilizing vegetation growth, neglect and unsustainable tourism, while related sites are also at risk of damage from looting. In partnership with the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History who manages the Park, GHFs goals include the development and implementation of a site Management Plan, documentation and conservation of the archaeological features at Teyuna-Ciudad Perdida Archaeological Park and the engagement of the local indigenous and peasant communities as major stakeholders in the preservation and sustainable development of the site.

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GHF in the News

Göbekli Tepe Featured on Cover of National Geographic


Photo: © National Geographic

This month’s National Geographic Magazine - June 2011 issue - features “The Birth of Religion,” a cover story about Göbekli Tepe in Turkey that discusses the significance of its massive pillars and how they are reshaping today’s ideas about the Neolithic Revolution and the dawn of civilization.  GHF is funding planning, conservation and community development at this enigmatic prehistoric site.

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New GHF Project

Marcahuamachuco, Peru
Pre-Inca City of the Dead

The site of Marcahuamachuco was a major regional center in the Andean Early Middle Horizon period (300–700A.D.).  Located in the northern Peruvian highlands of La Libertad and until recently a difficult site to reach, today a new road makes it accessible in three and a half hours from Trujillo, the third largest city on the country´s Pacific coast and the location of major Moche heritage sites.  The function of the site, although not fully clear, was as the seat of a ceremonial oracle, as well as a religious and political center, including turning into a burial site in its later stages. Its influence extended to all of northern Peru and contemporary southern Ecuador.  Global Heritage Fund is working with the Unidad Ejecutivo Marcahuamachuco (UEM) to prepare a program of planning, conservation and community development to enable long-term site sustainability.

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