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Multi-periodSite Name: Huaca Rajada Alternative Name: Split Ruin, Sipan
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 1.009 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Chiclayo  Nearest Village: Sipan
Latitude: 6.80114S  Longitude: 79.60231W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
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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3 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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bat400 visited on 24th Sep 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The civic center associated with the famous "Lord of Sipan" tomb finds. Visible are the large adobe pyramids, and a burial platform. The tombs found in the burial platform remain open and contain simple reproductions of the tomb finds as well as signage describing the tombs. The pyramids themselves are dramatically eroded, but careful examination shows the adobe brick structure. A nearby museum describes the Moche culture and multiple noble burials, but the finds from the tomb of the "Lord of Sipan" himself are in the museum of the Royal Tombs innearby Lambayeque City. Please visit here as well you show your support of the local village and the vendors who work near the museum.

Pyramid in Lambayeque State, Peru.
Huaca Rajada is a massive adobe brick step pyramid in the Lambayeque Valley. It is the largest of three eroded pyramids on the Sipan site in the Mochican "Moche" archaeological district.

Huaca Rajada is thought to have been the "ceremonial" structure of the three. The second largest structure is thought to have been the "political" structure, and the third structure, a lower platform was the site of noble burials - the location of the famous tombs first excavated in 1987 - 1990 by Walter Alvas's team. Only the burial structure is protected by a roof to prevent further erosion. One may climb a small path onto the second pyramid where you can see the adobe structure in the continued erosion of the pyramid as well as fragments of ceramics. The area has revealed tombs of rulers or warrior priests of the Moche culture (50 to 700AD.) The "Lord of Sipan" tomb dates to 290 AD. The tomb's artistic finds of weapons and ornaments corroborated ceramic decoration that emphasized warfare, captive taking and human and animal sacrifice. The tombs are on display with recreations of the finds in durable copies of human remains and ornaments. There are also signage on site describing the tomb finds.

The Moche used river irrigation to support agriculture (squash, beans, peanuts).

There is also a small modern site museum, housing several additional tomb burials, presented in much the same fashion as the more famous tombs housed in the Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán, in the larger Lambayeque town.

Note: Recent finds, see comment. Three noble burials 20 meters from the "Lord of Sipan"'s tomb site.
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Re: Mochican - Huaca Rajada by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 13 January 2016
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Archaeologists Discover the Tomb of a Teenager Buried for Over 1600 Years by coldrum on Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Archaeologists Discover the Tomb of a Teenager Buried for Over 1600 Years

Archaeologists have discovered, 16 meters from the tomb of the Great Lord of Sipan, the remains of a teenager belonging to the Moche society who was buried over 1600 years ago in Peru.

The discoverer of the Lord of Sipan, Peru's Walter Alva, explained that eight days ago he proceeded to clean the grave in a hitherto unexplored area in northern Peru.

The tomb is located on the same funeral platform where the Lord of Sipan was found in 1987, one of the most important archaeological achievements of the twentieth century.

This site is located in the village of Sipan in the northern province of Lambayeque, the researchers located the entrance to a tomb consisting of a trench two feet wide and four meters long containing a cane coffin.

Inside the coffin, lay the remains of a teenager, apparently male, 1.35 meters high who would have between 12 and 14 years old, said Alva.

In the absence of definitive research, the remains found date from the fourth century AD or so, a date prior to the death of the Lord of Sipan, he added.

This tomb is the sixteenth found in the complex formed by two pyramids where people were the elite Moche were buried, a culture that lived between I and VIII centuries AD in this region of northern Peru.

Also, Alva explained that the with the coffin, four large jars with food waste were found, while inside there were other four vessels and some copper ornaments in the form of headgear.

Among the ceramics, the archaeologist said there was a realistic representation of a peanut which had been represented in the Lord of Sipan's metal collar.

"The Mochica (groundnuts) had a special meaning related to the cult of the dead and the cycles of regeneration because it is a flowering plant,which is then re-buried and germinates. It is the metaphor of the world of the living and the dead, " said Alva.

The side of the cane coffin shows the skeleton of a llama (camelid) and other indications suggest that only a fraction has been discovered.

According to Alva, the new finding in the pre-Inca platform is "extremely important" because it will help build the entire sequence of graves and meet their hierarchical level.

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39965
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    More on Peruvian Tomb of a Teenager Buried for Over 1600 Years by bat400 on Thursday, 02 September 2010
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    Peruvian archaeologists have discovered the remains of three ancient elites believed to have been buried more than 1,600 years ago in northern Peru. The remains are of an adolescent believed to be male who was about 13-years-old, a woman, and a man who still remains largely underground.

    The three are thought to belong to the Mochica community which ruled the northern coast of Peru from the time of Christ to the eighth century A.D.

    The adolescent, buried in a coffin made of cane, was surrounded by vessels and offerings including peanut remains and figures representing peanuts as well as copper offerings. In the ancient culture small nuts represented life after death, according to the archaeologists.

    The historically significant find was discovered by Peru's Walter Alva who had previously discovered the tomb of the Great Lord of Sipan.

    Surprisingly, the remains of the new finds were found on the same funeral platform as Sipan just 20 metres away and only 10 metres from a previously known priest also on the same platform.

    "We are excavating in the same platform on the same royal mausoleum of the Lord of Sipan where they [the Mochicas] buried all the high ranking people from lords to priests and of course people in the noble Mochica families. This tomb is located 20 metres from the tomb of the Lord of Sipan and just 10 meters from the tomb of a priest. They belong to a time slightly before that of the Lord of Sipan," Alva said.

    According to Alva the fact that the new remains were discovered on the same platform is extremely important because it will help archaeologists construct a type of timeline to better understand the hierarchy of the culture.

    Sipan's discovery in 1987 is one of the most significant finds in the area and the recent finds are believed to outdate him adding to their importance in understanding the hierarchy of the ancient culture.

    See more of the Reuters article.
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Tomb Shows Peru’s Moche Were Christ’s Contemporaries by bat400 on Sunday, 29 November 2009
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A tomb at the Sipan archaeological site in northern Peru confirms that the ancient Moche people were contemporaries of Christ, scientists say. The head of the Huaca Rajada Sipan Archaeological Complex, Luis Chero, told Efe Monday that tombs are often found there that date back to the third century, but this burial confirms that the Moche or Mochica civilization existed before that.

“Now with this tomb we have evidence of the early Moche, of their origins, which is to say from approximately 100 B.C.,†he said.

The discovery of a young warrior’s tomb was presented to the press two months ago, but the new studies at the place it was found have brought further information to light as to its antiquity and also the age of the warrior, though other studies must be done to corroborate the findings.

Chero added that the analyses carried out last month by physical anthropologist Luis Millones in the grave some 12 meters (39 feet) underground show that this nobleman, who apparently performed “priestly and military functions,†was 21 years old when he died.

“The causes of death are currently in the process of analysis. He was quite young, he was 21, while the other people found in Sipan had an average age of 40,†Chero said.

The body of the young Moche had a breastplate and seashell bracelets and was surrounded by ceramic objects including an owl and spears.


For more, see the Latin America Herald Tribune.
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Peru Tomb Older than Lord of Sipan by bat400 on Thursday, 05 July 2007
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A team of archaeologists, led by Walter Alva, have discovered the wooden tomb of another member of the Mochica culture's elite - [older by 100 years] than the "Señor de Sipan" (Lord of Sipan).

These findings belong to the Moche civilization, which ruled the northern coast of Peru from the time of Christ to 800 AD, centuries prior to the Incas.

Alva has stated that he and his team are investigating and within the next few days will know the role of this noble in the Mochica society. "We have found the tomb of a person that belonged to Mochica nobility. Inside the coffin, discoveries of copper and copper-plated decorations - covered in rust, demonstrate that this person was not a Lord but was among the Mochica elite," Alva explained.

"The tomb is of a person that appears on Mochica artwork, which shows he participated in important rituals. His headdress, which is V-shaped, identifies him as such," explained Alva.

The archaeologist explained the value of this discovery, "This is the tomb of a person we hadn't found, now we have the Mochica elite complete."

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