Enlarge / An artist’s sketch of what the 300-200 BCE temple complex at San Bartolo looked like in its heyday. (credit: Stuart et al. 2022) Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. A bar-and-dot symbol for the number “7” […]
(credit: Sican National Museum) Archaeologists recently unearthed an unusual tomb in a temple complex at the Huaca Las Ventanas archaeological site near Lambaeque, in northern Peru. The site belonged to the Sican culture, one of the several complex societies that flourished prior to the rise of the Inca Empire (around 1400 CE) in northern Peru. […]
Enlarge (credit: Salazar et al. 2022) A recent study of geological deposits and archaeological remains has identified a massive earthquake and tsunami that wiped out communities along the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert around 3,800 years ago. Studying the ancient disaster—and people’s responses to it—could help with modern hazard planning along the seismically active coast. […]
Enlarge / Scarlet macaws (credit: Abul Az Abu Jamil) Centuries ago, indigenous South Americans brought live parrots hundreds of kilometers across the Andes Mountains, then raised them in captivity in the Atacama Desert, according to a recent study. The Atacama is one of the last places you’d look for tropical parrots. It’s the world’s driest […]
Expand In Wilamaya Patjxaan archaeological site in southern Peru, archaeologists discovered the skeleton of a young lady whose individuals buried her having a seekers’ toolkit, such as projectile points. The Locate motivated University of California Davis archaeologist Randall Haas and his colleagues to have a close look at additional Pleistocene and early Holocene hunters from […]
Expand / The kitty is attracted from the negative, with its head turned toward the viewer. (charge: Johny Isla through AP) Employees in the Nazca Lines website lately discovered that the faded, partly eroded overview of a cat extending across a desert hillside. The cat combines the ever-growing collection of roughly 900 contours and graphics […]