Posted inGeography, Modern Era

Pozuzo, the Curious History of a German Colony in the Peruvian Andes

A town with a Budweiser House and a Schafferer Museum, where traditional dishes include brennsuppe and Wurst sausages, where polkas and mazurkas are danced to the sound of an accordion, and whose inhabitants sport blonde hair while greeting you with “willkommen”, can only be located in Germany or Austria. Only? Well, no—because the place we […]

Posted inArchaeology

A 4,750-year-old Megalithic Stone Plaza in the Andes Discovered by Anthropologists

Two anthropology professors from the University of Wyoming have uncovered one of the oldest circular plazas in the Andean region of South America, showing monumental megalithic architecture. Located at the archaeological site of Callacpuma in the Cajamarca basin of northern Peru, the plaza is constructed with large vertically positioned megalithic stones, a construction method never […]