Long Before The Incas, Another Empire Ruled The Andes. We're Only Now Piecing Together Who They Were
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Anthropologist Jose Capriles' team rediscovered and reanalyzed submerged artifacts from the Tiwanaku polity (500–1100 CE) in Lake Titicaca, including puma-shaped incense burners, gold medallions, and sacrificial llama bones dated to the 8th–10th centuries, revealing evidence of organized religious ritual 500 years before the Incas.
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