2023-08-28 14:27:27
A group of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of a priest alongside ceramic offerings at a ceremonial site in northern Peru.
“The funerary context is intact. He is one of the first priests in the Andes to have a series of offerings,” said the researcher.
The body, placed in an extended position with the lower extremities semiflexed, is oriented from south to north.
Towards the west side of the tomb, small spherical ceramic bowls, a carved bone spatula, and other offerings have been deposited.
Two seals were also found, one with designs of an anthropomorphic face and the other with the face of a jaguar.
The body and the offerings were covered by at least six layers of ash and earth, as a filler for the tomb, a circular hole three meters in diameter and one meter deep.
powerful leaders
Researchers estimate that the priest lived around 1,000 BC.
“We have to correct our idea” because already then “powerful leaders appeared in the Andes,” Seki said.
In September 2022, the same group of archaeologists discovered the tomb of the “Priest of the Pututos”, more than 3,000 years old, along with musical instruments made from seashells.
The pututos or pututus are shells that the inhabitants of ancient Peru made sound like trumpets.
Pacopampa, located at an altitude of 2,500 meters, has an extension of 1.5 kilometers and is made up of nine carved and polished stone buildings, and stairs.
In the same archaeological site, other burials have been found, such as that of the “Lady of Pacopampa” in 2009 and those of the two “priests of the Jaguar Serpent” in 2015. It is estimated that they date from regarding 700 to 600 years BC.
Archaeologists from the Museum of Ethnology of Japan and the National University of San Marcos of Peru participate in the investigations in Pacopampa.
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