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5,500-Year-Old Settlement Discovered on Lake Titicaca Island, Bolivia—Rewriting Early Andean History
A windswept island rising from the waters of Lake Titicaca—long revered in Andean cosmology—has revealed a far deeper human past than anyone expected. New scientific analysis shows that people were living on Bolivia’s Island of the Sun as early as 3500 BC, pushing the timeline of settlement in the Titicaca Basin back by centuries. This…