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Fossilized dung-eating mites: Sources of Inca history
Mar 29 2007, Kanchan

Could you ever imagine that mites could become witnesses to history? Well they sure can and they do so just by their very presence. In Cuzco, Peru, new research used the remains of a dung-eating mite to trace the fluctuating trading activity of the...

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