Peruvian geoglyphs and pyramid astronomically aligned
Posted maggio 6, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and the setting sun during the winter solstice. During the solstice, hundreds of years ago, the three would have lined up to frame …
Ancient petroglyphs documented in NE Argentina
Posted aprile 25, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
A hill in the northeast part of Argentina that holds various cave paintings, which was considered to be a sacred place before the Incan conquest of the region in the fifteenth century, was identified by Mexican investigator Luis Alberto Martos Lopez fr…
Towards the origin of America’s first settlers
Posted aprile 18, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
The international scientific community faces the exciting challenge of discovering the origin of America’s first settlers. A new publication shapes some alternatives to the hypothesis of a single migration movement, as a model to describe the origin of…
Peru prevents illegal export of antiquities and fossils
Posted aprile 16, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
Peru customs authorities have seized more than 150 artifacts and fossils so far this year, pieces that were being taken illegally out of the country, according to the Culture Ministry.
Machu Picchu artefacts returned to Peru by Yale University [Cr…
Nazca lines ripped up by quarry
Posted aprile 8, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
A group of ancient lines in the archaeological zone of Buenos Aires, in Nazca, have been destroyed by heavy machinery, El Comercio reported.
A mining company has destroyed several of the ancient lines in Nasca
[Credit: José Rosales / El Comercio…
Disputed finds put humans in South America 22,000 years ago
Posted marzo 14, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
Stone tools unearthed at a Brazilian rock-shelter may date to as early as 22,000 years ago. Their discovery has rekindled debate about whether ancient people reached the Americas long before the famed Clovis hunters spread through parts of North Americ…
Eleven pre-Hispanic bodies found at Peru sports center
Posted febbraio 27, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
Archaeologists studying a small site at Peru’s main sports center have dug up eight skeletons dating from at least 700 years ago and three others twice that old.
An excavated skull and artifacts lay unearthed at the sports complex where Peru’s nat…
Maize in diets of people in coastal Peru dates to 5,000 years ago
Posted febbraio 26, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
For decades, archaeologists have struggled with understanding the emergence of a distinct South American civilization during the Late Archaic period (3000-1800 B.C.) in Peru. One of the persistent questions has been the role of agriculture and particul…
5,000 year-old temple found in Peru
Posted febbraio 14, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
A temple believed to be about 5,000 years old has been discovered at the ancient El Paraiso archaeological site in a valley just north of Lima in Peru.
Ancient temple: Peruvaian archaeologists estimate the temple at the El Parison site is 5,000 ye…
Saving Paraguay’s threatened rock-art
Posted febbraio 5, 2013 / By TANN / 0 Comments
Enigmatic rock carvings, once hidden deep within the Paraguayan jungle are a testament to the indigenous people of the Amambay hills. However, as the jungle is increasingly torn down around them and the trees set alight by slash and burn farmers, the r…