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File / 05 · Four bundles / one unsettled history

The burials refuse the simple word conquest

Four respectfully wrapped seated burial bundles rest beside a moonlit stone temple threshold where two paths meet.
Original Nogical illustration · Interpretive image, not archaeological documentation

At Huaca del Loro in Peru, archaeologists found four wrapped, seated individuals undisturbed for more than a thousand years beside a Wari temple rather than in the site's cemetery. Their placement raises the possibility that Nasca and Wari people cooperated during colonization instead of meeting only through violent conquest. CT scans, DNA and isotope work are still under analysis, so identity, mobility, diet and the relationship between the groups remain open.

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