Satellite imagery has revealed 76 ancient stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unseen settlements in the high-altitude Andes of northern Chile—evidence that hunting and gathering persisted at the center of Andean life long after agriculture appeared. The discovery, led by Dr. Adrián Oyaneder of the University of Exeter and published in Antiquity, contradicts centuries […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A new study suggests that the Wari, a pre-Inca civilization that flourished in the central Andes between 600 and 1000 CE, may have used a hallucinogenic beer to unify their multicultural realm. The study, published in La Revista de Arqueología Americana, hypothesizes that Wari elites mixed a psychedelic substance called vilca—derived from the seeds of […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine