How Did Civilizations in the Andes Deal with Environmental Upheaval? Interview with Professor Jason Nesbitt
Tides of History
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The Unto Ontological Turn
The indigenous inhabitants of coastal peru had a very different view of of the environment. They regarded elninio as part of the socio ecological norm, that rather than building their entire cultural and subsistence system around a static environment. There's evidence that during certain ninos, for the moche culture and chimo cultures, that people seemed to practice some human sacrifice during some of these events. And um, i i think arkles need to take that part of it seriously.
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