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Reviewed on August 1, 2013 | Video/DVD
Gr 7 Up—This documentary is a mélange of perspectives that create an archeological, cultural, and geographic context for burial sites of the indigenous Chachapoyas who lived in the Amazonas Region between 800 and 1500 ACE. The film crew follows two archeologists along the Urumbamba River System deep into the remote cloud forests of northern Peru as they search for and catalog chullpas—mummified funerary bundles and sarcophagi perched high above the riverbed on narrow inlets. The visual imagery...Log In or Sign Up to Read More