Archaeologists Find First Physical Evidence of Hairless Dogs in Ancient Peru - GreekReporter.com

New research uncovers the first evidence of Peruvian hairless dogs, showing how they lived, fed and were buried at a Wari site in Peru.

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Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar https://arstechni.ca/2hKX #Pre-Columbiancivilizations #indigenoussouthamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #indigenousamericans #Archaeology #Science #parrots #science #inca #wari
Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar

The Inca Empire's system of roads were built on centuries-old trade routes.

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one of ninety-six placed within eight oversized jars. The neck of each jor depicted a face, suggesting that the textiles were part of an offering made by elite #Wari individuals to who or what remains a mystery.

Ampiga Region, Pes

Each of these figurines depicts an elaborately dressed elite #Wari individual. Compare their unique headdresses and tunics to the image of other figurines excavated from Wari sites. Archeologists suspect these represent idealized imaged of different Wari officials, based on their rank or place of origin.
#Wari (Spanish: Huari) were a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about 500 to 1000 AD.[1
#Wari (Spanish: Huari) were a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about 500 to 1000 AD.[1]
New research suggests the Wari Empire in Peru used psychedelic beer to turn strangers into allies. Chemistry met politics, and intoxication became infrastructure for empire. #Archaeology #Wari #Andes #Anthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-empire-in-the-afterglow-how-psychedelic
The Empire in the Afterglow: How Psychedelic Beer Helped the Wari Bind a Fractured Andes

A new study suggests that 1,200 years ago, the Wari in Peru engineered empathy & alliance not only through roads and ritual, but through chemically altered feasts that rewired the mind for cooperation

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Incan numerical recordkeeping system may have been widely used

The Inca Empire hung by a thread—literally.

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The Wari Empire (was epic!)

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The Whisper of Maize by Florence Goupil

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