... shers, and gatherers began to specialize in growing the grain. By about 1,000BCE, maize cultivation had spread into the Amazon region and to the Orinoco fl oodplains to stimulate the growth ... (responsible for the mysterious “Nazca lines” etched in the desert) while, at the same time, the Moche culture (with its famous Temple of the Sun) achieved a similar dominance in the north. The social ... some sidling toward sedentism. There was increase in the number of camelid bones that, in turn, suggests the beginning of camelid herding, which eventually begat the domesticated llama ( Lamaglama)...