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The Superfood That Saw Ancient Andeans Through 2,500 Years of Turmoil

What if the superfood in Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization high in the Andes Mountains where not much grows. UC Berkeley archaeologists reconstructed the diets of ancient Andeans living around Lake Titicaca, which straddles Bolivia and Peru 12,500 feet ...

Troy Oakes

Stone circles in the Andes Mountains.