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Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 ...

Archeologist Dougald O’Reilly speaks about his work on Laos’ Plain of Jars and tracing the region’s pre-historical societies.

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