#Aymara language is super fascinating.
''Basically, I found a way to teach the computer any grammar by using the Aymara syntax,"
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/01/world/old-andes-language-finds-niche-in-computer-age.html
It's self correcting and algorithmic.
Guzman used it to construct translation algorithms in the 1980s (German and English I think)
It's probably a single existing #language that may give credibility to previous advanced civilizations on earth.
A drone view shows Cholita golfer Martha Mamani, one of the last Aymara women practising the sport wearing traditional pollera skirt, playing at La Paz Golf Club during her free time, in La Paz, Bolivia. REUTERS/Claudia Morales
350-year-old mummified head in Switzerland traced to Bolivia’s Aymara people after new study
A mummified head housed in Switzerland for more than a century is rewriting what experts thought they knew about its origins. For many years, the remains—consisting of a preserved face, cranium, jaw, and part of the neck—were believed to be the skull of an Inca man. Now...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/350-year-old-mummified-head-in-switzerland/
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Photo by Todd Antony
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#climbing
#Aymara
#cholita
@photography
The word cholita has in the past been used as a pejorative term for the Indigenous Aymara women of Bolivia. But the women in these photographs are reclaiming the word: they are “Cholitas Escaladoras”, or climbing cholitas. In 2019, they summited the 6,961 metre (22,841ft) peak of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain outside Asia, while wearing traditional dresses and shawls.
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