Peruvian archeologists discover pre-Inca era graves
STORY: Peruvian archeologists have found
30 graves from the pre-Inca era
Locator: Huaral, Peru
The burial bundles from the Chancay culture
were found in a cemetery in a valley north of Lima
The graves belonged to
people with different social status
(Pieter Van Dalen, Archeologist, University of San Marcos)
“The graves we’re finding in these excavations belong to the year A.D. 1000 up to 1440. We’re discovering these graves are very important because they allow us to know more about this culture that has been investigated just a little. In the last 10 years, we’ve discovered more than 2,000 tombs in different cemeteries of the Chancay culture.”
The Chancay were a
pre-Columbian civilization
that developed between valleys
on the central coast of Peru
from about 1000 to 1470
