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Perhaps not entirely surprising, when you consider how much better Tibetan high-altitude adapations are when compared to Andean people's.

Well this area is in the Andean mountains which is pretty much as steep as it gets.

Customs union is just customs union, like Mercosur or Andean community or European customs union.

The Inca were just the named phase of upper Andean civilization when the conquistadors arrived.

Lately I have been really interested in taking a month off work and hitting the Andean countries in South America.

So if I eat rice and beans[1] to save money while working on a startup, does that mean I'm trying to emulate the lifestyle of an Andean peasant?

It's much more reasonable to consider upper Andean civilization as a whole instead of just looking at the final administration and taking that name.

South America's Andean territories soon became viceroyalties of Spain, far away.

Showing stock footage of an Andean mountain when the foliage in the foreground is clearly shows that it is somewhere in the sub-arctic (spruce trees and lupine native to Alaska for example) is total idiocy.

However, I would also suggest the connection to the Amaru myth of the Nazca and Incas (and Andean civilizations in general).

If we go down that pathway you end up at something like the vertical archipelago model, developed to understand Andean agriculture.

Slight correction: quipu was used in Andean South America (e.g.

In "Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms" Frank Salomon describes pre-Incan trade in the region surrounding Quito.

I do know that the Inca would not have to "invent" markets because there were preexisting markets in the Andean region.

First Equador renouncing the Andean Trade Preference Act, then the timing of this feels coupled to the Bolivian plane overreach (in stark contrast to Obama's "29 yo kid" dismissal).

He does have one paragraph about tomatoes, but he also talks about Andean cacti like Browningia candelaris, "plants from places like cloud forests of Central America", Solanum pennellii, and "plants from (...) the Páramo of Ecuador".

I wonder what 10.7 will be called - we're running out of cats with acceptable names (Andean Mountain Cat won't do).

Andean cultures had their own large breeds I'm less familiar with.

I think I'll stick to that definition; I don't want to lose my mental image of the daft-looking little copilots roaming around the Inter-Andean valleys that their more menacing-looking ancestors once inhabited.