Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavated artifacts included this toucan beak decorated with green and brown beads. Long before the Incas, there were the Carals.

Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...

"A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. For more than ...

A study published in the journal Antiquity suggested an ancient South American civilization spiked a beer-like drink with psychoactive drugs as a way of maintaining social cohesion and forging new ...

Ancient tropical South American forests were teeming with little rodents, similar in size to today's rats and mice. Now researchers have found traces of what may have been among the first rodents to ...

ANTHMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. "South America is a vast, relatively isolated, landmass that includes 12 independent countries and one region ...