Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.<\/p>\n
The workers found the trunk of a huarango tree (a species native to coastal Peru), “which served as a tomb marker in the past,” at a depth of 50 centimeters (20 inches), archaeologist Jesus Bahamonde, scientific coordinator of Calidda gas company, told reporters.<\/p>\n
The mummy of a boy aged between 10 and 15, was found at a depth of 1.2 meters, he added.<\/p>\n
“The burial and the objects correspond to a style that developed between 1000 and 1200,” he said.<\/p>\n
The remains discovered on Monday were found “in a sitting position, with the arms and legs bent,” according to Bahamonde.<\/p>\n
They were found in a shroud which also contained calabash gourds.<\/p>\n
Ceramic objects, including plates, bottles and jugs decorated with geometric figures and figures of fishermen, were found next to the mummy.<\/p>\n
The tomb and artifacts belong to the pre-Inca Chancay culture, which lived in the Lima area between the 11th and 15th centuries.<\/p>\n
They were discovered while gas workers were removing earth from an avenue in the Puente Piedra district of northern Lima.<\/p>\n
In Peru, utility companies must hire archaeologists when drilling the earth, because of the possibility of hitting upon heritage sites.<\/p>\n
Calidda has made more than 2,200 archaeological finds since 2004.<\/p>\n
Lima is home to over 500 archaeological sites, including dozens of “huacas” as ancient cemeteries are known in the Indigenous Quechua language.<\/p>\n
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