Ancient rock engravings in what’s now South America — believed to be among the largest in the world — were meant to mark the boundaries of the territories inhabited by their makers ...

It’s a mystery that’s puzzled scientists for decades: how did early humans reach South America so early? The answer may lie in the latest archaeological discoveries.

References [1] Herbivore coprolites from the South-Central Andes. A multiproxy study at Los Viscos Archaeological Site, Catamarca, Argentina. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports (2021).

Object Details Author Fowler, Don D. 1936- Wilcox, David R. 1944- Gordon R. Willey Symposium on the History of American Archaeology (3rd : 2000 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Subject University of Pennsylvania ...

Though area residents have long been aware of the rock art, the archaeology of the Middle to Upper Orinoco had been little studied by outsiders, says paper co-author José R. Oliver, a reader in ...

Archaeology & History A 1,400-Year-Old Mural of Two-Faced Men Bearing Hummingbirds Has Just Been Excavated in Peru Archeologists have described the mural as unlike any other in South America.

From this type of sample, ancient DNA techniques enable the reconstruction of human and pathogen genomes from the past. In the back, a Wiphala flag representing Indigenous communities of South ...