Gratuitous Historickal Llama Poopy Posting

Llama dung mites track Inca fall.

Scientists believe they have found a new way to track the rise and fall of some ancient civilisations - by studying fossilised mites that thrive in the dung of their livestock.

A team from America, France and Britain have been studying mites from the soil in the Andes in Peru and say the tiny creatures can provide clues to changing patterns of trade and of disease epidemics through history.

The researchers made the discovery, announced in the Journal of Archaeological Science, while studying mud cores from a lake near the town of Cuzco, the heart of the former Inca Empire.

I'm thinking that if Spielberg really is making a new Indiana Jones movie, this is pure gold: In this one, set in the days after WWII, Indy has to travel high into the Andes to find the Sacred Llama Pellets before a bunch of Argentine Nazis can get their hands on them and bring about the Fifth Reich by using them to activate the dreaded Cuzco Pooper Skooper of Doom.