Archaeology

Museology

Revisiting and reclaiming the past

Researchers and native peoples discuss repatriation of artifacts taken during colonial eras

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Archaeology

Inca offerings in Lake Titicaca

A stone box made of volcanic rock found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca is helping archaeologists to better understand the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Incan Empire

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Archaeology

30,000 years ago in the Americas

Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago

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Archaeology

Archaeology without excavation

Archaeologists have mapped an entire Ancient Roman city without carrying out a single excavation

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Archaeology

The new dimensions of Ur

Ur may have occupied an area up to eight times greater than previously estimated by archaeologists in the 1980s

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Archaeology

Primitive gardens in the Amazon

Evidence of cassava and pumpkin cultivation, dated at 10,350 and 10,250 years ago respectively, helped an international team of researchers to identify 4,700 artificial forests in the Llanos de Moxos region in Bolivia

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Paleoanthropology

Diaspora 2.5 million years ago

Chipped stone artifacts found in Jordan may be evidence of archaic humans leaving Africa 400,000 years earlier than previously thought

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Tourism

Travel lessons

Travel itineraries combine science learning with exploring new horizons, allowing visitors to act as research assistants on scientific studies

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Interview

Anna Curtenius Roosevelt: The rainforest archaeologist

Excavations in South America helped the American researcher reinterpret how Amazonia was occupied before European colonization

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Archaeology

New glyphs found in the Peruvian desert

Archaeologists from Japan have identified 143 new drawings—or geoglyphs—of animals, plants, and people in the Nazca desert, near the coast of Peru

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Archaeology

Social inequality in the Bronze Age

Analysis of remains and grave goods found in cemeteries near the city of Augsburg in southern Germany suggests that social inequality is an older phenomenon than previously thought

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Photolab

Until archaeology do us part

After death, a man and woman in Lapa do Santo, Minas Gerais State, remained together for more than 8,000 years

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Archaeology

The water people

For 1,000 years, indigenous people in South America lived in stilt-house villages in the lowlands of present-day Maranhão

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Evolution

3.8-million-year-old skull

A nearly complete hominid skull dated at 3.8 million years old has led to new conclusions about the origins of the genus

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Archaeology

Homo sapiens in the Peloponnese

A 210,000-year-old skull fragment found in southern Greece may be the oldest evidence of the presence of modern humans outside Africa

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Paleoanthropology

Diaspora 2.5 million years ago

Chipped stone artifacts found in Jordan may be evidence of archaic humans leaving Africa 400,000 years earlier than previously thought

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Archaeology

Egyptian Mummy in Rio Grande do Sul

Researchers have identified the head of an Egyptian mummy who lived 2,500 years ago stored at the 25 de Julho Cultural Center in Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul

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Ethology

Changes in primate culture

Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) living in Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí 3,000 years ago knew how to break and crush fruits and seeds using stones

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Archaeology

Incans charged agricultural tax

A specific type of quipu may be the first evidence that taxes were collected by the ancient Incan empire

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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

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Archaeology

São Paulo’s largest rock art

Scientists working on an exploratory research project that began in 2014 have discovered an 80-meter piece of rock art in Ribeirão Bonito, in the center of São Paulo State

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Archaeology

New species of primitive humans

Homo luzonensis may have lived in the region more than 50,000 years ago

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paleontology

The day the dinosaurs died

A discovery is helping researchers understand the events that followed the huge meteorite impact that hit Earth 65 million years ago

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History

Memories indelible by fire

For 200 years, the National Museum contributed knowledge in the natural sciences and inspired the creation of several other science museums

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Archaeology

Megamonuments may have originated in France

Archaeologist concluded that the first structures of Stonehenge were created roughly 6,500 years ago in what is now Brittany, northwest France

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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

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Archaeology

The water people

For 1,000 years, indigenous people in South America lived in stilt-house villages in the lowlands of present-day Maranhão

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Archaeology

National Museum rescues 1,500 pieces

They include exhibit pieces and others that were stored in the museum's archives, as well as equipment, personal objects, and architectural fragments

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History

France must return African objects

Tens of thousands of African artifacts kept in French museums should be permanently returned if requested by the country of origin

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Archaeogenetics

When indigenous people occupied Lagoa Santa

Ancient DNA reveals rapid human colonization of South America 14,000 years ago

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