Question

Walter Alva beat a group of tomb robbers to excavate an archaeological site of this civilization, where he found the undamaged remains of a “lord.” (15[1])A piece of pottery from this culture depicts priests beheading captives and drinking their blood, (15[1])posited to be the “Presentation Ceremony.”This culture may have used the misha plant as a hallucinogenic, as its pottery depicts the plant alongside runners transforming into jaguars. This culture’s primary god is Ai Apaec, (15[2])known in modern times as the (-5[1])(*) Decapitator god. (10[1])The name for this (10[1])culture was coined by Max Uhle, who excavated (-5[1])Huaca del Sol. (-5[2])The primary (-5[1])museum for this culture’s artifacts was established by Cornell grad Rafael Larco Hoyle in Lima. (10[1])For 10 points, name this culture that inhabited coastal Peru (-5[2])for much of the first (-5[1])millennium CE. (10[2])■END■ (10[2]0[7])

ANSWER: Moche culture [or Mochica] (The first sentence refers to the Lord of Sipán.)
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