Hundreds of the large, elaborate structures are spread across the Chincha Valley, about 124 miles south of Peru’s capital, Lima.
They discovered a total of 192 bone-laced posts, each of which appears to have been made with the remains of a single individual.
At the time, European colonizers would regularly dig up corpses to get their hands on the valuable jewelry and other trinkets buried with them. “Looting was primarily intended to remove grave goods made of gold and silver and would have gone hand in hand with European efforts to eradicate Indigenous religious practices and funerary customs.”
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