On a barren mountain ridge in the Pisco Valley of Peru, a strange pattern of depressions stretches across the landscape. From the air, the formation looks like a massive, serrated spine carved into the earth. On the ground, it reveals itself as a series of thousands of carefully excavated pits, each roughly a meter wide and nearly a meter deep. Local residents and archaeologists have known about the site, called Monte Sierpe, for decades. For a …
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