Editing Managua (section)

===Origins===
[[File:Managua 1849. Blick vom Strand auf den Managuasee. Skizze von Ephraim George Squier.jpg|thumb|left|View of Managua in 1849, when it was a small fishing village]]
Nicaragua was inhabited by [[Paleo-Indians]] as far back as 12,000 BC.<ref name="Dall2005">{{cite book|last=Dall|first=Christopher|title=Nicaragua in Pictures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUP3hLbq6DEC&pg=PA66|date=October 1, 2005|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|isbn=978-0-8225-2671-1|page=66}}</ref> The [[ancient footprints of Acahualinca]] are 2,100-year-old fossils<ref name="SchminckeOthers2009">Schmincke, H.-U., S. Kutterolf, W. Perez, J. Rausch J, A. Freundt, and W. Strauch, 2008, [https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00445-008-0235-9 ''Walking through volcanic mud: the 2,100-year-old Acahualinca footprints (Nicaragua). I Stratigraphy, lithology, volcanology and age of the Acahualinca section.''] Bulletin of Volcanology. v. 51, no. 5, p. 479-493. {{doi|10.1007/s00445-008-0235-9}}</ref> discovered along the shores of [[Lake Managua]]. Other [[archeological]] evidence, mainly in the form of ceramics and statues made of volcanic stone, like the ones found on the island of [[Zapatera]], and [[petroglyphs]] found on [[Ometepe]] island, contribute to the increasing knowledge of Nicaragua's ancient history.