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Native American culture sowed seeds of its own collapse

Floods brought the Nazca to their knees — but they crippled themselves by over-farming first.

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Buchen, L. Native American culture sowed seeds of its own collapse. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.1046

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