I really miss this crazy bunch!  Of course this is not ALL of the students.  Sometimes it is difficult to round us all up ;)

Our beautiful Agatha with her intact cranium

Every year the students throw a costume party...I went as a bag of ceramic fragments (please note they red painted designs and tag around my neck, indicating the location and layer I was found in and how many fragments were diagnostic)

Here you can see the label on my arm.  Everyone thought it was super creative (and cool because it was free to make).

We also visited Cao Viejo where archaeologists found a famous priestess who challenged the roll they thought women played in Moche culture.

This is the area where they found her burial.

Our pit!  I can't believe how much has changed in a month.

I got to put my artistic skills to good use during mapping.  I absolutely LOVE to map skeletons and burials!

A famous Peruvian dish-Guinea Pig

Another field trip to some gorgeous free standing structures

On the 28th of July (their independence day), a school visited our site to perform some traditional Peruvian dances.

We celebrated the 28th with a day-long party.  There was music, good food, good drinks, and good company.

Me and Luis Jaime Castillo (a generous man and scholar) on the last day in Chepen 

We loaded up on the bus and visited Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna, a famous Moche site.  The paint visible in the above picture is all original.

A residential area lies between the two huacas and is still being excavated.

Inside the plaza of Huaca de la Luna

On my very last day in Lima, I decided to make a mad dash to the Larco Museum just hours before my flight to see the fantastic ceramics.

I found maces, a very popular image in Moche iconography...

...naked, bound prisoners...

...wrinkle face/iguana face...

...ear spools...

...nose rings...

...head dresses...

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...head dresses...

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...and ceramics galore!

Some of them have such personality

aisles and aisles of ceramics!

I will miss this very much and can't wait to come back :D