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January 30, 2026Hunter-gatherers built monumental Andean mounds through centuries of communal memory, showing architecture as ritual, not just hierarchy or power.
Hunter-gatherers built monumental Andean mounds through centuries of communal memory, showing architecture as ritual, not just hierarchy or power.
From Ancient Andean burial mounds reveal early hunter-gatherer roots of monumental architecture on phys.org
"Our study shows that rituals surrounding the dead can, through repeated action, generate visible monumental formations in the landscape."
— Luis Flores-Blanco, via Phys.org
Sometimes the most enduring monuments are made not by rulers, but by ordinary people, returning again and again to remember together.
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