21:00 | Huancayo (Junin), Mar. 25.
Workers from a construction company uncovered the remains of a pre-Hispanic tomb while carrying out excavation works in the village of Auquimarca in Chilca district (Huancayo Province).
Immediately after the fortuitous discovery, experts from the Decentralized Culture Directorate (DDC) of Junin reached the area to protect the cultural heritage.
Some ceramic pieces were unveiled as workers carried out sanitation works on Leoncio Prado Avenue.
"A joint assessment is being conducted by the executing company and the
Regional Government of Junin, in order to adopt the corresponding measures," DDC-Junin's archaeologist Ronald Sulca stated.
"The cultural heritage needs to be safeguarded as it belongs to all Peruvians," he added.
According to the archaeologist, the find included funerary offerings related to ceramics and vessels of different sizes that may have been used for a human burial.
"In pre-Hispanic times, there was a perception that there is life in the afterlife, just as now in the central Andes; those burials were held in this context, and some funerary structures appear in the outline of the ditch, such as burial chambers that have been made with slabs of stones, which may have been brought from other quarries," Sulca explained.
In addition, he remarked that no further evidence has been found and, therefore, an "in situ" assessment is being carried out to continue implementing the archaeological monitoring plan.
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Published: 3/25/2021