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Thank you. on the button. It's the ancients on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and today while we're

heading to prehistoric South America.

A few months back, I received an email from an avid ancients listener called Franco.

Now, Franco, he suggested that we start looking into the archaeology of South America,

which is often overlooked compared to other areas of the world.

We thought that that was a brilliant idea, and so today, we're bringing some of this fascinating archaeology into the spot slide.

We're going back more than 10,000 years.

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