pre-Inca

After six expeditions to Easter Island, including one in 1986 during which he uncovered ancient ceremonial constructions, human teeth and bones, soil containing charcoal, and stonework similar to that found in pre-Inca sites, Thor stoutly phonated that the island's first inhabitants arrived from Peru around 800 B.C., traveling in balsa-log rafts, such as the one he sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947, the raft he called Kon Tiki.

Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011

These pre-Inca ruins outside of La Paz are still being excavated, but archaeologists have already revealed sophisticated treasures, art and evidence of the scientific achievements of the Tiwanaku culture which thrived around Lake Titicaca as far back as 1500 BC.

La Paz. Remember to breathe. « Wanderings 2008

“I will give you only a small cup,” he told some 20 European, North American and Peruvian vision seekers, including an advertising executive, a film editor, and an engineer who had gathered near the ruins of a pre-Inca civilization on the southern outskirts of Lima.

Vision-inducing drug makes new inroads in Peru | Disinformation 2007

First grown in pre-Inca times and probably domesticated in Argentina or Bolivia, it is one of the most important plants from the New World.

The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

First grown in pre-Inca times and probably domesticated in Argentina or Bolivia, it is one of the most important plants from the New World.

The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

First grown in pre-Inca times and probably domesticated in Argentina or Bolivia, it is one of the most important plants from the New World.

The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

The sacrifice of a pregnant woman "is very unusual" in the pre-Inca world, said respected Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who was not involved in the discovery.

Gruesome Evidence of Human Sacrifice Jan 2008

LIMA, Peru AP — Archaeologists in Peru say they have discovered the jawbone of a fetus among the remains of a sacrificed woman in a pre-Inca tomb, suggesting the Lambayeque culture practiced the atypical sacrifice of pregnant women and their children.

Gruesome Evidence of Human Sacrifice Jan 2008

Peru archaeologists find pre-Inca sacrificial tomb

Gruesome Evidence of Human Sacrifice Jan 2008

Maybe they should re-examine prior finds and recalibrate earlier assumptions about what the pre-Inca did and did not do!

Gruesome Evidence of Human Sacrifice Jan 2008