Word: incas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kinsey carefully explained that he was forming no further conclusions about the mores and manners of the Mochicas. He pointed out to interested Peruvians that his main studies center on the sex life of modern North Americans, but he hopes that what he learns of pre-Inca habits may throw some added light on his contemporary research...
...Newly discovered ancient Inca capital...
...like the Mayan it has never been deciphered. Having no records to go by, archeologists are necessarily vague in categorizing Andean art, but laymen may find a certain poetic fascination in the mere names of the main civilizations: Chavin, Cupisnique, Salinar, Cavernas, Quimbaya, Chanapata, Chiripa, Mochica, Tiahuanaco, Chimu, Chibcha, Inca...
Tightly wound around the patient's head was a three-layer bandage tourniquet such as Inca and pre-Inca surgeons used. With bronze chisel and copper hammer...
...proved, he said, that the ancients' tools and methods were as good as the moderns', and in some ways perhaps better. For the future, he foresaw wider use of the tourniquet bandage, which had given him an almost bloodless field of operation. And he thinks another pre-Inca wrinkle may prove useful: flexible bronze needles, which the surgeon can bend when putting in stitches...