What can be known about Peru’s pre-Incan civilisation?
Recent archaeological discoveries have shed new light on the history of Peru’s Chachapoya people. Until the 1990s most of what we knew about this pre-Columbian culture – referred to as the ‘Warriors of the Clouds’ by the Inca – was based on third-hand stories from unreliable Spanish chroniclers. Even today, the Chachapoya jigsaw has more gaps than pieces. Yet interest and knowledge in the erstwhile civilisation is growing. In 2017, the hilltop Chachapoya ruins of Kuélap were equipped with a cable car and marketed by the Peruvian government as a northern rival to Machu Picchu. Two years later Unesco placed the ‘Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley’ on its tentative list of World Heritage Sites being considered for nomination.
The little local adventures keeping us sane during lockdown
Amid all the fake news and fear, word-of-mouth tips are getting us through
30 January 2021 • 12:12pm During lockdown, we inevitably dive deeper into our immediate surroundings, making local knowledge is a precious commodity
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Have you heard about the asparagus field? During the first lockdown, last spring, simply knowing about the asparagus field near Margate was tantamount to bragging about befriending the doorman at Berghain, Berlin’s most notoriously inaccessible nightclub.
As local lore had it, an asparagus farm that normally supplied London restaurants had generously invited locals to come and pick their own asparagus for free, rather than harvesting a crop that wouldn’t sell. It was a sorry story for Kentish farmers, but spectacularly thrilling news for local residents. It was our very own Whisky Galore! moment, but these days we all get more excited by locally grown artisan produce than booze
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