Anthropology
Population Studies
Misplaced youth
Researchers look for explanations for the increase in youth suicide rates in Brazil
Archaeology
Ancient use of psychoactive substances in Bolivia
An international team of anthropologists and bioarchaeologists has identified traces of hallucinogenic substances in a 1,000-year-old leather bag found in the Bolivian Andes
By Redação
Urbanism
Controversial airport on sacred Incan land
The recently started construction of an international airport in Chinchero, southeastern Peru, has raised concerns about potential damage to archaeological sites in the region
By Redação
Archaeogenetics
When indigenous people occupied Lagoa Santa
Ancient DNA reveals rapid human colonization of South America 14,000 years ago
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Rebuilding heritage
Partnerships with indigenous peoples and community associations will be decisive to the restoration of ethnographic and linguistic collections
Photolab
Pre-Columbian Culture
Fragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America
By Redação
anthropology
How graffiti tensions art
Graffiti movement gave rise to São Paulo's own language
By Redação
SOCIAL SCIENCES
International pregnancy
Demand for assisted reproduction increases foreign genetic material in Brazil
Archaeology
Fishing scenes in the Atacama
The people who inhabited the northern coast of Chile before European colonization may have been skilled fishermen and marine hunters
By Redação
Genetics
A superfamily of 13 million people
Thirteen million people connected by blood ties or marriage over five centuries make up the largest family tree ever constructed
By Redação
Archaeology
The world’s oldest figural tattoos
Two naturally mummified bodies have what archaeologists consider to be the earliest known figural tattoos
By Redação
archaeology
Rice domesticated in the Amazon 4,000 years ago
Rice domesticated in the Amazon 4,000 years ago
By Redação
Anthropology
The Neanderthal in each of us
There may be more Neanderthal in modern Homo sapiens than thought
By Redação
Retrospect
An independent collector
Wanda Hanke traveled alone throughout South America in the 1930s
AUDIOVISUAL ARTS
The inner city speaks for itself
Inner city video activists show their own vision of São Paulo
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Eduardo S. Brondizio: Urban Amazonia is invisible
Anthropologist highlights the vulnerability of urban Amazonia