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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. Got a minute?

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The Spanish arrival in South America changed many things, including, it seems, even the Peruvian coastline.

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In dry northwestern Peru, unusual 19-mile-long sandy coastal ridges were formed through tectonic activity, El Ni?o storms and natural sediment deposit.

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The nine ridges still standing appear to have formed from 5,100 years ago until about 400 years ago.

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And they're topped with deposits of shells, rocks from fire pits and other human artifacts.

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Scientists studying the region found that the shells are from mollusks and barnacles, and primarily of species still fished there today.

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They thus concluded that the shells were left by native communities who long called the region home.

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The researchers also found that the clamshell and fire deposits stabilized the ridges and protected them from erosion.

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No such stable ridges exist along the coast from the past 400 years, after the local people died from disease or war, or were pushed inland.

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Any incipient ridges since were easily toppled by wind and storms.

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The research is in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.

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Visitors now see what they may think is a natural landscape.

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But its formation depended on thousands of years of human activity.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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