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The future is behind for the Aymara: The speaker at right indicates next year by pointing backwards over his left shoulder. Copyright Rafael Nunez UC San Diego
The future is behind for the Aymara: The speaker, at right, indicates next year by pointing backwards over his left shoulder. Copyright Rafael Nunez, UC San Diego

New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates they have a concept of time opposite to all the world's studied cultures -- so that the past is ahead of them and the future behind.


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