[4] Another scholar, Izumi Shimada, calls Cupisnique a possible ancestor of Mochica (Moche) culture with no mention of Chavin.
[5] Yet another scholar, Anna C. Roosevelt, refers to "the coastal manifestation of the Chavin Horizon... dominated by the Cupisnique style".
The Chavin people who came after the Cupisnique built a temple adjacent to Collud about three hundred years later, in a location named "Zarpan".
The temple found in 2008 also includes imagery of the spider deity, thought to be associated with rainfall, hunting, and warfare.
The second reason being the buildings [are] embellished with painted, incised stucco relief work depicting surreal creatures".
In 2008, it was reported that archaeologists had excavated the Cupisnique site of Limoncarro in the Guadalupe District, Pacasmayo, La Libertad Region of the northern Peru coast.
Two phases of construction were identified; among other things, animal faces indicating Cupisnique iconography were uncovered.
In 2020, local farmers clearing land in the La Libertad region of northwestern Peru found the ruins of a shrine bearing a large mural painted in shades of ocher, yellow, gray and white.