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To the sun-worshiping Indians of the Americas before Columbus, gold was not so much precious as sacred. The Incas of Peru used it freely in wall coverings, in breastplates, in artificial flowers, in provision for tombs-never thinking of it as rare, always stressing the religious emotion they felt...
*Excepting the American beginnings made by the Mayans and Incas, where cultural contact with Eurasia, across the Pacific, was early and slight.
The hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into...
Stringing these and other speculations on a roughly chronological chain, Author Wendt ranges the world in space and time. He examines the theories of the Diffusionists (who believe that all civilizations derive from a single mother culture, whose ruins have been found in Iraq. Crete, India and Egypt), but he...
Scattered Llamas. Peru's Indians have much to remember, unforgivingly. The country, lying along the continent's western bulge, is harsh at the best of times. The chilled winds that blow in from the cold Humboldt Current pass over the dust-dry coastal plain (Lima's last...