South America Archive
Places
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Since their initial discovery in 1927, scientists have identified 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs across over 130 miles of desert. These geoglyphs are smaller
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In July, archaeologists and conservators at the Moche site of Pañamarca in Peru's Nepeña Valley made a significant discovery: a pillared throne room
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavations conducted by the Ministry of Culture in Peru, significant discoveries were made within the walled complex of Utzh An, previously
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The recent archaeological discovery in Peru has shed new light on the region's ancient history. Before the Spanish conquest, the Inca civilization was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeological findings in Venezuela have revealed potential evidence of a previously undocumented ancient culture. The discovery occurred in Canaima National Park, located
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of what is believed to be the largest prehistoric rock art in the world. These engravings, carved
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Peru is famous for being one of South America's most significant rock art sites. The fascinating Toro Muerto, a desert gorge, is situated
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have made an exciting discovery in the Peruvian Amazon - a new species of freshwater dolphin
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The “Serrote do Letreiro” Site, translated as “Signpost Hill,” located in the Sousa municipality, Paraíba State, Brazil, is of great paleontological and archaeological
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A curious comb drawing discovered in the Huenul Cave in Argentina may be the oldest rock art ever uncovered in South America. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Callacpuma archaeological site, nestled in the Cajamarca basin of the northern Peruvian Andes, is renowned for its extraordinary cave paintings. These artworks,
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In modern times, pineapple is a common fruit easily found in any grocery store. However, did you know that this tropical fruit was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have scientists used the wrong term when referring to early humans as hunter-gatherers? According to new groundbreaking research, the answer is "yes," at
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Earth Changes
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While examining ice cores from Antarctica, scientists found evidence of toxic heavy metal pollution caused by humans, predating the Industrial Revolution by centuries.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society? These questions have long been debated
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polish archaeologists excavating at Pachacámac, (Pachakamak, in Quechua), which means ‘one who gives life to the earth’, an archaeological site south-east of Lima in
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dinosaurs have quite the reputation for being the largest, fiercest predators in life's history. Yet, 40 million years before dinosaurs ruled, Pampaphoneus biccai
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a partial skeleton of a whale that lived about 40 million years ago. Researchers say it is possible this is
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While investigating at Waskiri, near the Lauca River and the Bolivian-Chilean border, archaeologists made a curious discovery. Scientists found an impressive circular construction
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As the excavations at Pañamarca continue, archaeologists report many fascinating discoveries that help shed more light on the ancient history of Peru. Of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Color plays a huge role in our lives—the hues we wear and decorate with are a way for us to signal who we
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The pre-Hispanic Wari culture Wari flourished from about 500 A.D. to 1000 A.D., in the region of Ayacucho region and stretched over Cusco's
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study co-authored by a George Washington University research professor examines the Inka Empire's instruments of culture and control through a well-preserved
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report they have made an exceptional discovery in Peru. An ancient fresco that has been lost for over a century has been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Americas were the last continent to be inhabited by humans. An increasing body of archaeological and genomic evidence has hinted to a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains. For
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - According to a long-lasting theory, South America was populated by ancient humans who arrived in North America from Siberia approximately 14,000 to 17,000
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from three universities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, found a fossiliferous site lost for more than 70 years near the city
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An important discovery has been made by archaeologists working at the Chavín de Huántar archaeological site in Peru. Scientists report the discovery of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first whole genome sequences of the ancient people of Uruguay provide a genetic snapshot of Indigenous populations of the region before they
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Featured Stories
Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - The Brujo de Chiloé, or the Warlocks of Chiloé, were a secretive coven of male witches allegedly involved in witchcraft and crime
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered evidence that a major earthquake struck Chile's coast about 3,800 years ago, triggering a tsunami that caused devastation along 1,000
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Sican culture, also referred to as the Lambayeque culture lived in what is now the north coast of Peru between about 750
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Beautiful Machu Picchu has not given up all its ancient secrets, at least not yet. There is still much to learn about this
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Machu Picchu is among the most recognized archaeological sites in the world. A lasting symbol of the Inca Empire, it's one of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study along with excavations in Belize has revealed early Maya trace their roots to previously unknown ancient immigrants carrying maize
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a 36-million-year-old skull of a huge fearsome marine monster that was lurking in the prehistoric oceans of Peru. Based on
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial period, researchers
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is still much to learn about what kind of beings walked the Earth 12,000 years ago. Scientists have studied puzzling depictions of
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