Elizabeth Arkush

Archaeologist; studied hillforts (pukaras) on Peru's altiplano

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Radiocarbon dating rewrites the Inca Empire's timeline

Her recalibrated dates show Inca and local occupations overlapped decades

For more than half a century, archaeologists dated the Inca Empire from a Spanish colonial chronicle claiming the empire ruled just 94 years before the Spanish conquest began in 1532. A wave of radiocarbon dating has now shown that timeline is wrong.

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