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The Araucans are Amerindian tribes (Mapuche, Picunche, Huiliche) habiting the Arauco area in the center of Chile which nowadays make the most of the Indigenous population in Chile. Arauco is a long valley limited by the Andes to the east, with altitudes of up to 6,000 m (20,000 ft) and by coastal low mountains to the... |
15 February 2008
17:31 GMT |
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1. Life in the Andes would be impossible without them. When a house is built on the Andes plateaus, people use to immure at its foundation a new born llama. For thousands of years, llamas have been used for meat and burden transport, while its other domesticated relative, alpaca, delivered the finest wool for making ... |
31 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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From about 15,000 years, humans rely on one animal as guardian: the dog. In time, we have created more aggressive, more massive, more dreadful dog breeds for this purpose. But only dogs save our asses?1.There is the famous legend (and historical fact) of the geese that saved Rome in 300 BC from the attack of the Celt... |
7 January 2008
07:08 GMT |
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The glory and the decadence of the mighty civilizations could now be tracked by ... dung! A French-British-American team has found a method to assess the rise and fall the ancient Inca empire by investigating tiny mite preserved in the mud at the bottom of a sacred Peruvian lake. Counting the number of fossilized mit... |
27 March 2007
05:44 GMT |
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