As a species, we’ve done pretty well, if you can ignore wars, debauchery and outright badness. But what is it that makes us do bad things to others, even when there is no viable reason for it. Not like it’s a new thing: we’ve been doing it since we rose up from the primordial ooze. But some of we humans go waaaay out of line and take too much pleasure in the pain of others. One such example is Huaca Prieta. Huaca Prieta is a massive, pre-Columbian archaeological mound located on the coast of northern Peru, in the Chicama Valley. The site, part of the larger El Brujo Archaeological Complex, is a huge artificial mound composed of ash, stones, textiles, and other organic materials, which has earned it the name Huaca Prieta or “Black Mound.”
Something that has not long ago been unearthed is challenging the timeline of the Americas: Recent research has pushed back the earliest evidence of human presence at Huaca Prieta to as far back as 15,000 years ago, which is a significant finding. This discovery contributes to the ongoing debate about the timeline of the first human migrations into the Americas, suggesting that early groups may have settled along coastal routes and developed complex societies much earlier than previously thought.
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