Explore prehistoric culture and shared heritage at the upcoming Archaeology Day in South Park on July 12. Free and open to ...

A new study from a University of Colorado Boulder researcher, conducted with colleagues in Argentina, sheds new light on how the introduction of horses in South America led to rapid economic and ...

Tumaco-Tolita gold figurine: A 2,000-year-old statue with a 'fancy nose ornament' from a vanished South American culture Features By Kristina Killgrove published 24 March 2025 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered over 100 previously unknown structures at a centuries-old archaeological complex in Peru's Río Abiseo National Park. The discovery fundamentally reinterprets the ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

The Blackland Prairie of northeast Mississippi is the ancestral home of today’s Chickasaw Nation. They encountered the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto there in 1540, and later sent him and ...

South American tattoos are typically more complex drawings on hands, wrists, forearms, and feet. Cheek tattoos are rarer. In fact, no other ancient tattoo found in the region so far is comparable ...

The tattoos were made with magnetite ink, an iron ore not previously found in any other South American mummy. University of Turin team discovers unique facial tattoos on 800-year-old South ...