Last Uncontacted South American Indians Flee Forest Destruction in Paraguay
Ayoreo natives in Paraguay
Four Ayoreo men making contact with the outside world in 2004. The same men have uncontacted relatives who continue to live in their rapdily disappearing forest.
(Note: The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode are thought to be the last group of uncontacted South American Indians living south of the Amazon Basin. Roughly 300 Totobiegosode have not yet been contacted…
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Peru to Sue Yale University over Hiram Bingham’s Machu Picchu Artifacts
Report: Peru to Sue Yale for Inca Artifacts
The Associated Press
November 9, 2008
LIMA, Peru: Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale University for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated decades ago by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu.
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Proof that Ancient South Americans Took Hallucinogens Discovered in Mummies’ Hair
Tiwanaku ceramic vessel in museum in La Paz, Bolivia; evidence of South Americans taking hallucinogens dates back at least to the Chavin culture, in north/central Peru, which flourished from 1,000 to 200 B.C.
Andean Mummy Hairs Show Hallucinogen Use
Discovery News
Oct. 29, 2008 — Andean mummy hair has provided the first direct archaeological evidence of the consumption of hallucinogens in pre-Hispanic Andean populations, according to recent gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis…
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