For Richard Burger, archaeology has turned up many surprising things. This includes romance, which blossomed when he met his archaeologist wife, Lucy Salazar, at a dig in her native Peru. “Sites are not all that romantic. There’s too much work!” says Burger. Luckily, however, nearby Lima was in the full flood of a Southern Hemisphere Spring, and love found its way out of the dusty remains after all.
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At the top, decorating the entrance to a central chamber, is a frieze depicting a giant mouth with three-foot long fangs.
A pre-ceramic settlement, one of nine roughly contemporaneous along the Lurin Valley, just outside Lima, that together form the Manchay Culture. Cardal is arranged in a U-shaped formation, with several pyramids, temples, and burial sites. There were no protective walls around the city, indicating a lack of warfare in the region during this time. While some of the Manchay sites go back into the Initial Period, before 1,800 BC, experts believe Cardal started around 1,300 BC.
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