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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.” A piece of pottery from this culture depicts priests beheading captives and drinking their blood, 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, known in modern times as the (*) Decapitator god. The name for this culture was coined by Max Uhle, who excavated (-5[1])Huaca del Sol. (-5[1])The primary museum for this culture’s artifacts was established by Cornell grad Rafael Larco Hoyle in Lima. For 10 points, name this culture that inhabited coastal Peru (-5[1])for much of the first millennium CE. ■END■ (0[3])

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