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| doi:10.1038/news.2009.1046
Corrected online: 2 November 2009
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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.
The mysterious Peruvian culture that preceded the Incas had a significant hand in its own catastrophic collapse, new research suggests.
The Nazca people are thought to be responsible for the enormous drawing or geoglyphs etched into the deserts of southern Peru, known as the Nazca lines.
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