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Published online 25 June 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010628-5
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Culture rained off
Ancient Peruvian civilization may have fallen foul of El Niño.
El Niño events may have altered the course of prehistoric civilization. Around 3,000 years ago rainfall seems to have put paid to the Peruvian progress it kicked off 3,000 years earlier, US researchers now report.
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