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 Huaca del Sol. 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 for much of the first millennium CE. ■END■
ANSWER: Moche culture [or Mochica] (The first sentence refers to the Lord of Sipán.)
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