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@Oliver Schick
What's always interesting in Mesoamerica and South America is when they find something that predates the best-known cultures. Many of their monuments will have been erected on top of remnants of older cultures, and while it's not impossible to excavate the many layers of a place in continuous settlement for millennia, it's still quite difficult, as Schliemann's experience at Troia proved in the case of applied dilettantism, and expensive, which often affects non-dilettantes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/25/peru-archaeologists-mural-temple-spider-god-rain-fertility