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PERU-ARCHAEOLOGY-CHIMU
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Handout picture released by the national agency Andina on August 18, 2011 showing excavation workers unearthing what archeologists have determined to be 800 year-old remains of 12 adolescents and children together with 20 camelids -- llamas, alpacas and other Andean sub species belonging to the pre-Inca Chimu culture -- at a site close to the pre-Inca citadel of Chan-Chan near the city of Trujillo, 570 Km north of Lima. "Individuals were tied with halter and buried in different positions," archaeologist investigator Daniel Prieto divulged in his study. Prieto explained that these individuals were sacrificed in a ritual ceremony much like the one done during the later Inca Empire, known as Capacocha, which consisted in offering children and llamas (camelids) in view of the imminent birth or death of an Inca emperor. AFP PHOTO/ANDINA/HO
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Trujillo, PERU |
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19 August 2011 |
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