A diver with a bowl recovered from the Tiwanaku site. (Teddy Seguin) The mysterious Inca Empire is a source of endless ...

Their work resulted in the rediscovery and naming of five of the six known agave species that represent remnant populations of plants domesticated and farmed by pre-contact peoples in today's Arizona ...

A new study co-authored by University of Central Florida researchers shows that pre-Columbian people of a culturally diverse but not well-documented area of the Amazon in South America significantly ...

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 ...

In his monograph Pyramid, published by Toluca Éditions, photographer Pablo López Luz explores the pre-Columbian influence on modernist architecture in Mexico. Cover of ‘Pyramid’ by Pablo López Luz “It ...

More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian archaeological sites likely rest undiscovered throughout the Amazon basin, estimates a new study. The findings, derived from remote sensing data and predictive spatial ...

Two recent books shed light on evolving interpretations of pre-Columbian civilizations. Zelia Nuttall, who died in 1933 at the age of 75, was a pioneering anthropologist whose many contributions ...

A total of 395 archaeological artifacts that were kept in Costa Rica’s diplomatic offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington D.C., were repatriated to the country last month. These are ...

"Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies symposium 'Merchants, Trade, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World, ' held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ...

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 ...