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Researchers analyzed the remains of 1,633 individuals from Peru's Lambayeque Valley to assess levels of interpersonal violence across centuries, including periods linked to El Niño climate events. Despite documented evidence of ritual human sacrifices in the region, the skeletal record showed that overall violence among the population was uncommon.
Researchers from Northern Arizona University, working with Peru's Ministry of Culture, uncovered four well-preserved mummies in a location inconsistent with the established narrative of the Wari Empire's expansion into Nazca territory. The find has prompted archaeologists to reconsider existing assumptions about how and where the Wari exerted control.
The US National Science Foundation is moving to a 'portfolio-based' funding approach that blends traditional investigator-driven research with agency-directed priorities, according to an internal letter. The agency has not specified what these directed opportunities will entail, leaving staff and researchers uncertain about future funding categories.
Peru's government ended its anchovy fishing season early after warming Pacific waters pushed the fish into deeper, colder areas, illustrating the reach of this year's unusually powerful El Niño. Scientists say the event is forecast to become one of the strongest on record, and its effects—drought near the equator, Central America and the western Pacific, alongside heavy rain in the Horn of Africa, the western US and South America's Pacific coast—may differ from past strong El Niños because of added warming from climate change.