“For example, in 2010 my colleague and I described evidence of multiple stages of ritual and processing human bones at Khonkho Wankane. This was a ritual center to which the dead were brought for processing and then removed for final burial. Likewise, our excavation revealed that for centuries these inland communities practiced an agropastoral economy; tubers, ancient grains such as quinoa, along with the usage of llamas as a source of transportation, protein, and wool, were key components of their pre-Hispanic domestic economy that endured for centuries.”
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