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The Enigmatic Structure at Panquilma on the Central Coast of Peru: Site of Funerary Bundle Preparation or Ancestor Cult? (2016)
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During the summer of 2015 a puzzling structure was excavated in the cemetery at Panquilma, a major Ychsma settlement on the Peruvian central coast. Upon first glance this structure appeared to have a layout of a household structure but was located near the outskirts of the cemetery, far from the residential center of the site. A wide array of unusual items such as an abundance of metal fragments, colorful bird feathers, orpiment, an arsenic-bearing yellowish mineral used as a pigment, and lithic...