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The oldest known monumental adobe structure in the Americas provides clues to the origins of this versatile material.
![Ancient mud bricks show adobe’s foundations 5,000 years ago 2 The remains of The Temple of the Moon](https://media.nature.com/w700/magazine-assets/d41586-021-03446-x/d41586-021-03446-x_19866166.jpg)
The Shrine of the Moon in northern Peru was built thousands of years after the construction of adobe walls at the site called Los Morteros. Credit: Kike Calvo/Universal Images Group/Getty
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03446-x
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