Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively ...

A recent study of mummified parrots found in a high-altitude desert region in South America suggests to researchers that, as far back as some 900 years ago, people went to arduous lengths to transport ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 12 million years ago, a fearsome predator roamed the ancient landscapes of South America. It was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavated artifacts included this toucan beak decorated with green and brown beads. Long before the Incas, there were the Carals.

ANTHMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. "South America is a vast, relatively isolated, landmass that includes 12 independent countries and one region ...

A study published in the journal Antiquity suggested an ancient South American civilization spiked a beer-like drink with psychoactive drugs as a way of maintaining social cohesion and forging new ...

Scientists in Brazil have discovered a new giant dinosaur species named Dasosaurus tocantinensis, believed to be one of the ...