An ancient cemetery in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is helping to rewrite the region’s past. This burial ground housed the remains of a far-flung, well-connected group of players in what was one of South America’s earliest trade networks, researchers say.
New findings from the roughly 1,500-year-old Larache cemetery support the idea that trade bloomed among societies in the Andes Mountains — but without the direct involvement of the powerful Tiwanaku empire, say bioarchaeologist Christina Torres-Rouff of the University of California, Merced and her colleagues. Tiwanaku society was based in what’s now western Bolivia, but expanded its trading in South America between around 1,500 and 1,000 years ago. Maya civilization flourished during that time in Central America.
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