00:00 A team of Peruvian and Japanese archaeologists have discovered in northern Peru a pre-Hispanic
00:04 archaeological site dedicated to ancestor worship with subterranean burial chambers
00:09 and human remains with ceramic offerings.
00:12 According to Japanese archaeologist Shinja Watanabe, the site dates from the Wari period
00:16 between the 7th and 13th century AD and is located in the Cajamarca region, 900 km north
00:23 of Lima.
00:24 The head of Cajamarca's decentralized directorate of culture, Judith Padilla, on the other hand
00:30 said that these findings help understand the lifestyle and ritual practices of the ancient
00:34 societies that inhabited the Peruvian territory in order to understand the current practices.
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