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Judging the contest were Professor Clarence H. Haring, Professor Frederick C. Packard, and Alfred Kidder 2nd, assistant curator of Andean archaeology...
This was the first word from an eyewitness of one of Peru's worst disasters. The avalanche had struck the town of Huarás, Peru, in an Andean valley 216 miles northwest of Lima, in the early morning while most of its 9,000 people were still in bed. Five hundred were known to be dead, 1,500 more were injured or missing...
...many cases, Dr. Monge discovered, a double load of work slows down the pulse. A native's blood volume is larger than that of lowlanders, his veins are somewhat distended. His heart and circulation, said Dr. Monge, are like that of an athlete in training; about half the Andean men have noticeably greater strength than men at sea level. Most of them can climb a mountain "straight...
...Andean natives cannot stand low altitudes. "Every year," said Dr. Monge, "about 100,000 men come down to sea level for agricultural work, but after about three months . . . like the swallows . . . they go back to the altitude." The doctor has accustomed himself to spend several weeks a year at his red brick experimental station in Huancayo 10,000 feet up; after a few days he feels fine...
...Aztecs were very unlike the Incas of Peru. "The Andean peoples, to generalize broadly, concentrated on the material technique of supporting life," says Vaillant, "the Middle American peoples [i.e., Mayas and Aztecs] on spiritual, or more accurately, supernatural methods." Symbols of Inca culture were their vast aqueducts and irrigation systems. Symbols of Aztec culture were their mighty pyramidal temples...