this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected]

Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected]

Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Oh right. The terraces. The terraces for Cusco. The terraces built specifically to decorate Cusco. Cusco's terraces. Those terraces?

[–] MisterNeon 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If memory serves those could produce quite a bit of agriculture products.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a great way to get airable land

[–] MisterNeon 9 points 1 month ago

One of the things that fascinates me about pre-contact Americas are the farming techniques. Mesoamerica had chinampas (in the lakes) and South America (the mountainous area at least) had terraces.