by Care workers who expand gas networks in Peru’s capital Lima have discovered two Vorincan graves that contain the 1,000-year-old remains of an individual.
The discovery made on Thursday saw a grave empty, while the other showed the old remains alongside four clay vessels and three pumpkin bowl artifacts.
This is not an isolated incident for Cálidda, the natural gas distributor who has reported more than 2,200 archaeological finds for two decades of excavation work in the city.
The archaeologist José Aliaga confirmed the iconography of the ships and different black, white and red colors “enable us to connect to the Chancay culture in front of the incan, which goes back about 1,000 to 1,470 years.
Mr. Aliaga told the Associated Press that the person was “wrapped in a torn bundle in a sitting position with his legs against the chest”, with his team still cleaning the remains.
“Lima is unique in the Latin American capitals,” said Aliaga, “various archaeological finds are discovered in almost every office project.”
The archaeologist Jose Aliaga works on the place where the city workers discovered old remains from Chancay culture in front of the Inca, and artifacts as workers as workers grub for the Calidda company in the district of Puente Piedra on the edge of Lima, Peru (Associated Press) (Associated Press) (Associated Press)
According to the Ministry of Culture, the Peruvian capital, a city with 10 million people, has more than 400 archaeological sites from the Inca era, the 15th century or earlier from the Inca.
On Thursday, Passby held out in her tracks to watch the grave, and even took out her cell phones to take a photo.
“I always thought they were ways where nobody had lived,” said Flor Prieto, who went with her 7-year-old daughter. “But now I know that people lived older than the Incas there … it feels so exciting.”
Archaeologist work at the site where the city workers discovered old remains from Chancay culture in front of the Inca, and artifacts when they dig a natural gas line (Associated Press)
“It is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, mainly grave: graves, burials and among these mummified persons,” said Pieter van Dalen, Dean of the College of Archaeologists from Peru.
Van Dalen was not involved in the discovery on Thursday.
