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Along the rocky coastal bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in northern Peru, a series of clay reliefs depicting humans and human-animal hybrids decorates the walls of the site of Vichama. Likely an ancient agricultural and fishing community, Vichama was inhabited by members of the Caral civilization between roughly 1800 and 1500 b.c. “Vichama existed within the ancient coastal traditions of this area,” says archaeologist Lisa Trever of Columbia University. The people of Vichama were expert
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