Peoples Locked in Time: The Atacama Desert

In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain. More

In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without any rain. The hyper-arid soil has made the perfect medium for preserving the 9,000 year history of human occupation. Host David Yetman and Archeologist María José Figuerero visit the coastal city of Arica and other nearby towns in search of manifestations of millennia of continuous human habitation.

AIR DATE 9/4/18