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If you stop by the Field Museum right now and find yourself in the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples, or the Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas, you will notice something about the display cases: Several are covered up. That in itself is not unusual — who hasn’t been to a museum and seen a display case displaying nothing? What’s unusual is the reason: On Jan. .
In 2015, laser mapping technology revealed the existence of a massive pre-Hispanic settlement in the eastern foothills of the Andes, at least 2,500 years old. Now, research published in the journal ‘Science’ provides new details.