archaeoacoustic bird & jaguar
July 15, 2024 4:11 AM   Subscribe

“The Initial Period is important because it’s when we first start to see evidence of an institutionalized religion in Peru,” says Muro Ynoñan in the statement. “The bird creature at this temple resembles a figure known from the Chavín region, nearly 500 years later.” [smithsonian]

previously: Pre-Columbian musical instruments based on Helmholtz resonators [:wayback], a river in the Amazon that burns so hot it can kill, intensive agriculture of the valleys in one of the most arid places in the world, the miners were unionized and the mines are still underground, the reconstruction is a communal effort, some of the most beautifully preserved early textiles, Breastplate, North Peru - C.E. 1000/1470, first billboard in the world to make drinking water out of thin air, a lot of petroglyphs carved everywhere,
drawings from the Chavin culture show a people who were fascinated with sensory experiences -- ancient hippies if you will,
Paraíso de los libros, or “Paradise of Books”, Thirteen Towers of Chankillo in Peru may be the Western Hemisphere's oldest known full-service solar observatory, it samples the Huarochir Quechua Manuscript, which alone among colonial documents explains a pre-Christian tradition in an Andean language, Peru goes GNU, a truly massive cat drawing, runa simi, Montaña de Colores or Rainbow Mountain, is a naturally colorful mountain, the first indisputable quadrupedal whale record from the Pacific Ocean [current biology] and the Southern Hemisphere, ancient Peruvian engineering could help solve modern water shortages, superior management of the land also helped them resist the 30-year drought, some of these battles were turned into something of an epic fantasy poem, on jaguarness
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