Pagina Siete: Governor’s office will promote the Iskanwaya site It is located in the municipality of Aucapata, eight hours away from La Paz. It is made up of almost a hundred buildings, the last signs of the disappeared Mollo culture, which is why Iskanwaya receives the attention of the Government, which seeks to position it…
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Ancient Amazonian Farmers Fortified Valuable Fertile Land
Heritage Daily: Ancient Amazonian communities fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it from conflict, excavations show. Farmers in Bolivia constructed wooden defences around previously nutrient-poor tropical soils they had enriched over generations to keep them safe during times of social unrest. These long-term soil management strategies allowed Amazonians to grow…
The Mysterious Sajama Lines
Heritage Daily: The Sajama Lines is an ancient network of pre-Hispanic linear paths, located in the altiplano, or highlands of western Bolivia near the Nevado Sajama volcano. The web of lines covers an area of 22,525 square kilometres (almost fifteen times larger than the Nazca lines situated over a thousand kilometres away), and ran a combined length…
Have you visited Isla del Sol? These are its attractions
Willmary Montilla reports for Bolivia.com: The small city of Copacabana, has a great attraction, the Isla del Sol [Island of the Sun], and the archaeological attractions are multiple, if you have not yet gone, take advantage of the next holiday to visit it. Isla del Sol and all its attractions remained closed for almost two…
Drug Residues Detected on Ancient Ritual Bundle From Bolivia
Archaeology reports: BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—New Scientist reports that Melanie Miller of the University of Otago and her colleagues detected traces of five psychoactive chemicals on a collection of drug paraphernalia discovered in a rock shelter in southwestern Bolivia. The rock shelter is thought to have been a funerary enclosure where members of the Tiwanaku state may…
Burials in Bolivia’s ‘Forest Islands’ Offer Insights Into Early South Americans
Barbara Fraser reports for Discovery: Charred earth, shells, bones and human burials found in mounds on a plain in northern Bolivia are offering scientists new clues about the earliest known inhabitants of the southwestern Amazon. The remains, excavated from raised areas known as “forest islands” on the Llanos de Moxos, an extensive savanna, show the…
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