According to the head of the excavation, it is a religious enclosure, discovered on the site of Los Paredones de la Otra Banda-Las Animas, near the city of Chiclayo, in the north of the country.
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“It is possible that we are facing a 5,000-year-old religious enclosure.” Archaeologists announced Friday June 28 that they had discovered several weeks ago the ruins of a temple at the archaeological site of Los Paredones de la Otra Banda-Las Animas, near the city of Chiclayo, in northwestern Peru. In a video broadcast by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture as well as in an interview with the Peruvian channel Sol TV, researcher Luis Muro declared that this “architectural space [était] delimited by walls” made of clayey soil.
Among what remains of the temple, archaeologists have identified friezes with anthropomorphic figures in high relief, including a human body with a bird’s head, representations of felines and even reptile claws. The team of archaeologists also found the remains of what “would have been a central staircase thanks to which one could climb onto a sort of platform in the central part” of the temple, Luis Muro said.
The burial of a child of approximately five to six years old was also identified during this archaeological research, funded by the Catholic University of Peru and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
