Life above the clouds in the Andes, 7,000 years ago
Traci Watson, Special for USA TODAY Published 7:01 p.m. ET June 27, 2017 | Updated 5:36 a.m. ET June 28, 2017
In the Andes Mountains of Peru, the air is gaspingly thin, the climate harsh. Now archaeologists have evidence that humans lived there full-time at least 7,000 years ago, making themselves at home in a spot twice as high as Denver.
And they were equipped with little more than stone tools.
Scientists once thought that people avoided such inhospitable regions until
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