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.

"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 ...

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 ...

This discovery sheds new light on understanding the lives and hunting practices of ancient people who lived along the coasts ...

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 ...