Lima, Apr. 07 (ANDINA).- The Huaca Huantille, located in the Limean district of Magdalena del Mar, used until recently to sell drugs and shelter homeless, has become, since 2006, an archeological complex contributing to preserve Peru's pre-hispanic culture.
According to the archaeologist Roberto Quispe, leader of the project, in recent months workers have found funerary bundles, ceramics and friezes, among other vestiges of human presence in this complex.
They probably date from between 1000 and 1400 AD and would belong to the Ichma culture.
Huantille, which is almost unnoticed because of the surrounding modern constructions, is an archaeological site of significant size. According to estimates, the current complex is a third of what once existed at its height.
Most of its archaeological remains disappeared during the colony period to create new cultivation areas and use its building material for the construction of other buildings.
Even a brick company was opened in the 1960s, in the adobe recycling area of Huantille. Then, it was turned into an improvised garbage dump and a shelter for homeless.
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