Llama Droppings were the organic fertilizer that built Machu Picchu

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13439093
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One of the world's greatest ancient civilisations may have been built on llama droppings, a new study has found.

Machu Picchu, the famous Inca city set in the Peruvian Andes, celebrates the centenary of its "'discovery" by the outside world this July.

Dignitaries will descend on site for a glitzy event in July marking 100 years since US explorer Hiram Bingham came upon the site, but the origins of Machu Picchu were far less glamorous.

According to a study published in archeological review Antiquity, llama droppings provided the basis for the growth of Inca society.

It was the switch from hunter-gathering to agriculture 2,700 years ago that first led the Incas to settle and flourish in the Cuzco area where Machu Picchu sits, according to the study's author Alex Chepstow-Lusty.

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1. recommend

[Bonobo]

2. I met Hiram Bingham's great niece in a YMCA swimming pool.

True story.

[malaise]

4. Wow!

Interesting

[Motown_Johnny]

3. similar to how Palin droppings built the Tea Party

History repeats itself, only worse.

[malaise]

5. Much worse

Palin droppings are pollutants