# potatoes. Of equal importance to the #Irish, the #Peruvians and the good folk of #Idaho. Fascinating article on them here. Also, the oft-used Irish term “he’s a great big lump” possibly comes from someone who was thought to have grown to such a size by eating a large amount of Lumper potatoes, the almost exclusively grown crop at the time up to the horrors of the #IrishFamine https://www.sustainablemarketfarming.com/tag/lumper/

#Native #Peruvians threaded corpses’ spines on to sticks, study suggests | #Archaeology | The Guardian

Chincha people put their dead back together after colonisers disturbed graves when looting silver and gold, research says

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/02/native-peruvians-threaded-corpses-spines-on-to-sticks-study-suggests

#Colonialism