South America Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent excavations at the Chupacigarro archaeological site in the Supe Valley near Caral, a pre-Hispanic city in Peru, have unveiled a previously unknown
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AncientPages.com - For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo") to record and communicate information. Khipus
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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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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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