La ocupación Lima en el valle de Lurín: en los orígenes de Pachacamac monumental, Boletín de Arqueología PUCP, 19, 2015:97-143

The recent excavations of two important areas of the Pachacamac Monumental Sector, the foot of the principal facade of the Old Temple and the area beneath the hall of the main entrance at the Temple of the Sun, have allowed the authors to determine the relative chronology  of the first construction at this site during the Early Intermediate Period.  The ceramic fragments recovered share similar technological, formal and iconographic characteristics with the Middle Lima ceramics (Lima 4-5 in the Patterson sequence) from Chancay, Chillon and Ancon. This papers concurs wth the hypothesis that after the conquest of the lower Rimac and Lurin valleys, there was an emerging regional multi-valley political entity which could relate to a complex chiefdom or an "Andean State". However, during the Lima occupation of the Pachacamac site there is no evidence of an administrative center with urban residential zones. Instead, Pachamac sems to have been a low-ranked regional ceremonial center compared with the sites of Maranga,. Pucllana or Cajamarquilla.