South America Archive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors’ graves during the European colonial period,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Human DNA can be extracted from the 'cement' head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs thousands of years ago, scientists have

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of Machu Picchu, one of the most visited sites in the world remains an interesting subject. Have scientists finally determined this

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Beautiful Machu Picchu in Peru is visited by millions who want to admire the ancient city’s magnificent architecture. This ancient place is on

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The mysterious site known as Puma Punku, “The Gateway of the Puma.” Puma Punku is a beautiful and true wonder of the ancient

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed who they Inca were and where they came from. It soon became clear that the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  It took several years, but scientists have now confirmed this is the oldest human footprint in the Americas.  The discovery is significant as it

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cacao originated 1,500 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of British Columbia. Researchers also found genetic evidence showing that