Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that ancient people could be all that similar to us – but these recent findings from the Atacama Desert go a long way toward helping us understand our genetic ancestors.
The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth, and is so foreign and otherworldly that researchers use it to prep astronauts for crewed missions to Mars.
Thousands of years ago (2450-2250 B.C.E.), though, it was home to a society of hunter-gatherers that had seriously good taste in jewels, food, and even drugs.
A group of Chilean and French archaeologists have been exploring an ancient ceremonial complex there known as Tulan-52, and recently published some of their findings in Antiquity. They claim that the complex appears to have been important religious and ceremonial hub at the dawn of…
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