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 ...

Around 6,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who migrated south settled in the Bogotá Altiplano of what is now Colombia, transitioning to an agricultural society over the next 4,000 years.

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 ...

Especially is this evident when, as in a guide to exhibits illustrating the archaeology of North America recently issued by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the subject is treated on ...

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 ...