Le royaume chincha tirait sa puissance d’une ressource inattendue : le guano d’oiseaux marins. Une nouvelle étude montre comment cet engrais naturel a transformé l’agriculture et renforcé son influence régionale.
- Tom Austen Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney
In new research, biochemical analyses align with imagery and historical sources to show how the pre-Inca Chincha society turned guano into a source of power.
An ancient band of thousands of precisely aligned small pits stretching 1.5 kilometres across the Pisco Valley in Peru has baffled experts for almost a century.
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