Archaeology
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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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
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
Archaeology
The origin of chocolate and camouflaged fungus
Artifacts that belonged to native Americans between 5,300 and 2,100 years ago hold the earliest evidence of the domestication and use of cacao
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HERITAGE
The pain of loss
Six hours of fire destroyed 200 years of heritage at the largest natural-history museum in Latin America
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Photolab
Pre-Columbian Culture
Fragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America
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Archaeology
Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father
A 13-year-old girl who lived 90,000 years ago in what is now southwestern Siberia is the first described case of a direct descendant of two distinct archaic human groups
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Archaeology
The oldest library in Germany
Construction works on a church community center have revealed the ruins of a Roman library in the city of Cologne, Germany
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Photolab
Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista
Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro September 3, 2018
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Medicine
Salmonella in medieval Europe
Researchers found DNA evidence of Salmonella enterica Paratyphi C in the teeth and bones of an 800-year-old skeleton from the city of Trondheim, Norway
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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
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Profile
Eduardo Góes Neves
Archaeologist from MAE-USP summarizes his studies on how intense human occupation has shaped the Amazon forest
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Archaeology
The world’s oldest figural tattoos
Two naturally mummified bodies have what archaeologists consider to be the earliest known figural tattoos
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