This video provides a detailed map-based summary of Pre-Columbian America, exploring the vast range of indigenous societies, from the advanced urban centers of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca empires to ...

Study expands understanding of artistic development in pre-Hispanic South America. ... laser scans to study 1,200-year-old tattoos on mummified individuals from the pre-Columbian Chancay ...

The two men and one woman lived in pre-Columbian South America; One man from Chile died after being struck over the head and stabbed; The other man perished from a fractured spine, ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of writing used by the Incas in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a longstanding mystery.. The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine ...

One thing is certain: If the dates of the 2007 study are correct and there were indeed chickens in pre-Columbian South America, they had to come from somewhere.

Now in a new study in Frontiers in Medicine, researchers use 3D computed tomography (3D CT) to examine three mummies from pre-Columbian South America, conserved since the late 19th century in ...

Pre-Columbian Ridged Fields In four areas of tropical lowland in South America there are huge arrays of ancient earthworks. Many of them are ridges put up to farm land subject to seasonal flooding ...