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Caral & the Desert Coast
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Nazca Puquios - Desert Aqueducts Still Flowing
In one of Earth's driest deserts, the Nazca of Peru cut spiral wells and stone tunnels down to groundwater - and dozens still water farms ~1,500 years later. (Most archaeologists date them to ~500 CE. Sources: Puquios/Wikipedia; Lasaponara & Masini.)
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They Amputated a Foot 1,000 Years Ago - and He Walked Again
The Moche of Peru amputated feet ~1,500 years ago and patients survived and walked again, with ceramic prosthetics. Sources: Verano, Anderson & Franco 2000; PMC.
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