Finds like this can reshape how historians understand entire societies.

An auction of pre-Columbian artifacts that went ahead in Paris despite protests from the Mexican government ended as a stunning flop, with a sales total including fees that did not even reach half of ...

reporting from Santiago, Chile — First in a series of dispatches by Carolina A. Miranda exploring the art and architecture of Chile. Chilean architect Smiljan Radic is best known for seemingly coming ...

U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have found the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean, which could shed light on virtually every aspect of Indian life in the region, from ...

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized. Together with Brazilian colleagues, ...

An auction of pre-Columbian artifacts went ahead at Christie’s in Paris yesterday, November 10, despite widespread criticism about the sacred nature some of the items on offer, as well as the ...

Coprolites and artifacts recovered from the Huecoid and Saladoid archaeological sites. Credit: Chanlatte and Narganes, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ...

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A new study shows that pre-Columbian people of a culturally diverse but not well-documented area of the Amazon in South America significantly altered their landscape thousands of years earlier than ...