When most folks think of ideas of freedom and democracy, people imagine the origins are in ancient Athens. And ancient Athens did, indeed, give us something like democracy…except if you were a woman, ...

Archaeologists have recently unearthed a remarkable find from Andean tombs: gold masks that are approximately 4,500 years old. These ancient artifacts offer fascinating insights into the cultures and ...

Researchers looked at data about violence over centuries in the area that is now Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia. (Getty Images) The extent to which “civilization” heightens or lessens the likelihood ...

SANTIAGO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published, opens new tab in the Science journal on ...

The Boca Raton Museum of Art is known for its wide range of Pre-Colombian and African art, but a new temporary exhibit will help the South Florida museum finding its foothold within globally ...

PALASPATA, BOLIVIA—According to a statement released by Penn State, American and Bolivian researchers discovered a previously unknown temple built by the enigmatic Tiwanaku civilization near the ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. "John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The discovery of an ancient Tiwanaku temple in Bolivia is helping researchers paint a more complete picture of what the society once looked like. The ...

Focusing on the Lake Titicaca Basin in the Andes mountains, anthropologists found through analysis of 1,179 projectile points that the rise of archery technology dates to around 5,000 years ago.