RESEARCH ON TOMB 213 OF THE CEMETARY OF THE DUNES, NAZCA In the latter half of the 1920's Julio C. Tello and his team investigated several archaeological sites on the South Coast. Among the various cemeteries they excavated in the system of valleys of the Río Grande de Nazca, was the cemetery that was baptized the Cemetery of the Dunes, located on the right bank of the Las Trancas River. From the second section of this cemetery they extracted several funerary contexts belonging to the late phases of Nazca and the beginning of the Middle Horizon. In the 1980s the former Department of Physical Anthropology, now the Department of Human Remains, with support from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) performed the opening of two mummy bundles coming from the Nazca region, one of which, the bundle with the code number 1/3767, came from the Cemetery of the Dunes. As part of the recent changes in the MNAAHP, a reorganization progress was begun in the Human Remains storerooms, consisting of inventory, cleaning, conservation and, in some cases, relocation of cultural materials. It was during the course of these tasks that the human remains of bundle 1/3767 were identified, which showed fractures suggestive of death from interpersonal violence. This information took on a special dimension if one bears in mind that the remains come from a time of great social and cultural changes in the prehistory of the region, the time when a full-blown state society was establishing itself. For these reasons it was decided to further investigate this tomb: Compiling all the field information in the archives, the location and the recontextualization of the associated materials, the analysis of the grave and its components in the context of the region and the times with the objective of an approximation from bioanthropology of a possibly difficult time for the peoples of the region. The Curator of the Department of Human Remains, Elsa Tomasto Cagigao, Licenciada, is in charge of this research, with the assistance of Mellisa Lund Valle, archaeologist, with the added contribution of the curators of other departments, particularly Carmen Thays, of Textiles and Maritza Pérez, from Ceramics.