Tallán mummy found at Huaca El Loro sheds light on Sican contact with other ethnic groups

Archaeologists excavating Huaca El Loro in Poma,  near the city of Chiclayo in northern Peru, found a 1,000 year-old Tallán mummy, wearing a distinctive headdress, facemask and chest plate and surrounded by gold and silver ornaments, buried in a lavish Sicán tomb. According to the leading archeologist at the excavations, Izumi Shimada, the 1,000 year-old [...]