Inca civilization is formed from ... camel feces

According to a latest study, one of the oldest civilizations in the world may have been formed from the feces of llama, a llamas of South America.

This coming July will be the 100th anniversary since the outside world discovered Machu Picchu, the famous city of Inca civilization located in the Peruvian Andes. The authorities will take a trip to the ruins to organize a grand event in July, a time of 100 years since American explorer Hiram Bigham set foot on this land.

"The lost city" Machu Picchu is now the main attraction for tourists to Peru.

But the origin of Machu Picchu does not seem to be 'spectacular'. According to a study published in Antiquity , the subdivision of llama is the foundation for the development of Inca society.

According to research by Alex Chepstow-lusty, it was the transition from hunter-gatherer hunting to agricultural production of 2,700 years ago that for the first time led the Incas to settle in Cuzco, where the city is located. Machu Picchu later. Chepstow-lusty, of the French Andes Research Institute in Lima, said the development of agriculture and corn cultivation is the key to social development.

"Cereals have created civilization ," he said.

Chepstow-lusty has spent many years analyzing organic sediments in the mud of a small lake called Marcaccocha on the road between the low-lying forest and Machu Picchu. His team found a link between the first appearance of corn pollen at about 700 BC - also the first time that cereals could be grown in high lands - and an increase. mutant number of mites eating animal manure.

The llama have left their mark in the history of human civilization (Photo: Io9 ).

They concluded that moving to a large agricultural life could only happen with one factor: the use of organic fertilizers on a large scale or in other words, there must be more faeces of the species. llama.

Heritage of llama

The llama has been and is still being raised in the Peruvian Andes for transporting goods or for meat and wool.

Marcaccocha is located next to an ancient trade route, and the llama is used to transport goods between dense forests and the mountains will stop to drink water and "alternate defecation". This created a source of fertilizer that local people could easily collect, as it is now, and use it for the surrounding fields.

When the Incas moved from eating wild quinoa (a spinach variety) to eating corn, which had higher calorie content, their society began to grow in the Cuzco region.

About 1,800 years since the first time shifted from hunting to agricultural gathering, around 1100 AD, a prolonged warm sunshine caused real life to flourish, leading to the construction of zones. Large stone houses like Ollaytaytambo and Machu Picchu.

Today, the Incas have completely disappeared, most have been 'wiped out' by the Spaniards in the 1500s. But their descendants, the Quechua people, still use llama as fertilizer and fuel. cooking materials.

" The concentration of indigenous valleys still keeps the life of 2,000 years ago ," said Chepstow-Lusty.

When coming to Machu Picchu to celebrate 100 years since Hiram Bingham introduced the city to the world, visitors will probably thank humble llama for what they are seeing before them.