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Pre-Inca culture acquired Amazonian parrots from hundreds of miles away to use their feathers to decorate the dead, new analysis revealsCenturies before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.
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14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New WorldAncient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and not a coastal path.
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Tumaco-Tolita Seated Elder: This 2,000-year-old depiction of an aged man with wrinkles struck fear in people because it held 'the power'Tumaco-Tolita artists were known for their intense realism in sculpting clay representations of humans.
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World's oldest known sewn clothing may be stitched pieces of ice age hide unearthed in Oregon caveThe sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice age and as a means of social expression.
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CT scans reveal the last moments of Inca children sacrificed as 'messengers to the gods'New CT scans reveal the last moments of the Inca children who were sacrificed and mummified about 500 years ago.
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Paleo-Inuit people braved icy seas to reach remote Greenland islands 4,500 years ago, archaeologists discoverArchaeological remains on the Kitsissut islands off the coast of Greenland reveal that whole communities regularly journeyed across the dangerous Arctic waters.
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1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico features enormous owl sculpture symbolizing deathThe president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological discovery in a decade."
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Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years agoThe origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.
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5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the AmericasAn ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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