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Multi-periodSite Name: Huaca el Pueblo
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 36.732 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Chiclayo, Peru  Nearest Village: Salitral. Peru
Latitude: 6.9921S  Longitude: 79.6327W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Pyramid / Mastaba in Lambayeque Department, Peru.
The monumental structures at this site were built in the time period of the Moche (~500 AD). Huaco el Pueblo ("ruin of the town"), originally a stepped pyramid, is the largest structure at the site at 80 m by 55 m and over 17 meters tall.

Finds at this site span Cuspisnique, Moche, Lambayeque and Inca cultures (300 BC through 1400 AD).
The current archaeological project is conducted by Dr. Steve Bourget and Bruno Alva Meneses, of the University of Texas, Austin, and the Museo de las Tumbas Reales de Sipán, respectively. The objective has been to study signs of social and political organizations at six Moche sites. Finds have included unlooted tombs of individuals wearing regalia previously seen depicted in ceramics. The major example has been a man now called, the Lord of Ucupe.

Note: Similarities between this tomb and Sipán sites may challenge a widely held theory that northern Moche settlements were highly independent.
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King of Bling tomb sheds light on ancient Peru by bat400 on Saturday, 18 April 2009
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Packed with treasure in the styles of two ancient orders, the 1,500-year-old tomb of the Moche Indian "king of bling" is like no other, according to archaeologist Steve Bourget.
Discovered in Peru at the base of an eroded mud-brick pyramid, the tomb gradually yielded its contents last summer. Among the finds: 19 golden headdresses and two funerary masks, as well as skeletons of two other men and a pregnant woman.

The tomb's mysterious contents and location—far from known Moche capitals—could shed new light on this little-known culture of Peru's arid northern coast, said Bourget, of the University of Texas at Austin.

Thriving between A.D. 100 and 800, the highly agricultural Moche Indians are known in large part by their stepped pyramids, jewelry-filled tombs, and exquisite pottery and art.

The Lord of Ucupe—as locals have come to call the entombed Moche leader—was in his early thirties when he died, Bourget said. For entombment, the lord was dressed in full regalia—and then some.

His body was covered with a tunic and train of tiny gilded copper plates, and his face was covered with two funerary masks—a first, according to Bourget. A necklace of four-inch (ten-centimeter), disk-shaped silver rattles encircled his neck.

On his head was a gilded crown. Six more crowns and ten V-shaped headdresses called diadems were arrayed on top of his body. Still another diadem was folded in half and placed atop six metal war clubs to serve as a mat for his lifeless body.

The Lord of Ucupe was then wrapped in a large bundle made of reed and textile, along with artifacts suggestive of political status.

The lord was entombed atop another man. At the second man's side was yet another man, who himself was atop a pregnant woman.
"We don't know the relationships between the leader and the other males," Bourget said. And "this woman may have been a concubine or a wife. She may have died [of natural causes] while pregnant."

There were no marks on the bones indicating that the people had been sacrificed, he said, adding that textile fragments from around the bodies were radiocarbon dated to A.D. 340 to 540.



In life, ... nearly everything the lord wore—tunic, headdress, ear spools, nose mask—would have been made of gilded copper, he said.
"This guy would have shined in the sunlight"—to dazzle and distract, Bourget said. "This is the king of bling, literally."

The styles and funeral arrangements found at Huaca el Pueblo are similar to those at the famed Moche site of Sipán, some 25 miles (40 kilometers) away. But archaeologists have never before unearthed anything like the Lord of Ucupe, Bourget said.

"This find is particularly important, because it is the first time we have found an individual outside of Sipán that is the same type as some of the leaders found in Sipán," he said.

The artifacts are a jumble of both the more florid early Moche style and the stylistically simpler middle Moche designs. Bourget suspects the inclusion of both styles was a political act, perhaps designed to help legitimize the new order by linking it with the old.

Similarities between the Lord of Ucupe's tomb and Sipán sites may challenge a widely held theory that northern Moche settlements were highly independent.

"I don't think the idea that they were organized into city-states will fly anymore," Bourget said.

Jeffrey Quilter, deputy director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, wouldn't go quite that far.

Still, Quilter said, "Finding what appears to be a local lord who was part of a larger cultural system but may have been relatively independent—or maybe not—will … be a great contribution to understanding the past."

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