File / 05 · Four bundles / one unsettled history
The burials refuse the simple word conquest

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.