Lime- Public service workers who excavated ditches to expand underground gas networks in the capital of Peru They unearthed on Thursday two pre -Inca tombs. One was empty, but the other It contained the remains of a 1,000 -year -old individual, along with four clay vessels and three pumpkin peel artifacts.
This is not the first time that the company that distributes natural gas in Lima, finds archaeological remains. For more than two decades of excavation works to expand the underground network, the company says it has made more than 2,200 discoveries.
According to the archaeologist José Aliaga, the iconography of the vessels and their colors black, white and red “allow us to establish a connection with the pre -Inca culture Chancay”, which has approximately between 1,000 and 1,470 years old. Aliaga told The Associated Press that the individual was found wrapped in a broken bulge, sitting with his legs against his chest, and his team will continue to clean the remains.
“Lima is unique among Latin American capitals,” said Aliaga, “in the sense that several archaeological findings are unearthed during almost all civil projects.”
The Peruvian capital, a city of 10 million people, has more than 400 archaeological sites of the Inca era, of the fifteenth century, or previous, of the pre -Inca period, according to the Ministry of Culture.
On Thursday, passersby stopped dry to observe the place of the burial, even taking their cell phones to take a photo.
“I always thought they were paths where no one had lived,” said Flor Prieto, who was walking with her 7 -year -old daughter. “But now I know that older people who have lived there … feel so exciting.”
“It is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, mainly funeral elements: tombs, burials and, among these, mummified individuals,” said Pieter Van Dalen, dean of the College of Archaeologists from Peru. Van Dalen did not participate in the discovery of Thursday.