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News Chile » Atacama » History: A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
Broken walls and toppled stones reveal the calamity that struck Zapatero, an ancient community in what’s now northern Chile, about 4,000 years ago. The people who lived along the coast of the Atacama ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: A trip through Chile's Atacama desert, the driest place in the world
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: Can 'fog harvesting' help solve water scarcity in Chile's Atacama Desert?
By Maxwell Radwin Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. Some areas only see rainfall a few times in a century, while others have never recorded rainfall at all. In many ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: First farmers in the Atacama desert had a history of brutal violence
When coastal hunter-gatherers settled inland to begin farming about 3000 years ago in the Atacama desert, their violence became more gruesome, often with intent to kill, according to a study of human ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: Long-term history of violence in hunter-gatherer societies uncovered in the Atacama Desert
Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a study published September 20, 2023 in the open ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: Rare Blanket of Snow Falls in Chile’s Atacama, the World’s Driest Desert
Snow fell at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Atacama Desert of Chile, the world's driest nonpolar desert. ALMA / Felipe Besser Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large ...