“Women played leading roles in Caral and a team led by Shady has been working for eight years in Vichama, an urban center near the Vegueta district, in the northern province of Huaura, that archaeologists found looted and have restored.”
Do you think the author could have crammed any more separate thoughts into a single sentence?
No, no. There is room of at least one semi-colon. For instance:
“Women played leading roles in Caral and a team led by Shady has been working for eight years in Vichama, an urban center near the Vegueta district, in the northern province of Huaura, that archaeologists found looted and have restored; which requires further funding to determine what white males did to destroy the climate in that area of the world.”