All Articles Tagged As: american indians
First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America's earliest civilization.
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A recent study using specimens from Chicago's Field Museum establishes that Nazca trophy heads came from people who lived in the same place and were part of the same culture as those who collected them.
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Project will track the evolution of shapes of ancient artifacts
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A fortified village that pre-dates European arrival in Western Canada and is the only one of its kind discovered on the Canadian plains is yielding intriguing evidence of an unknown First Nations group settling on the prairies and is rekindling new ties between the Siksika Nation and aboriginal groups in the United States.
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 | New research shows crystal skulls are not all that they seem ...> Full Article |
 | Archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years ...> Full Article |
Professor uses novel approach to study Zapotec culture
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 | NASA, lasers, the rainforest canopy and Maya ruins sound like the ingredients for the next Hollywood blockbuster. ...> Full Article |
 | Earliest known human settlement in the Americas raises new questions ...> Full Article |
Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement.
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 | By studying monumental Maya stone sculptures from the fifth through eighth centuries in Mexico and Central America, anthropologist looks for clues to how civilizations put their own spin on the past for religious, political or other reasons ...> Full Article |
Anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines.
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 | Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from about A.D. 300 to 1500. ...> Full Article |
 | An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples. ...> Full Article |
 | Ancient Mayan temple builders discovered and used lustrous pigments to make their buildings dazzle in the daylight, a Queensland University of Technology researcher has discovered. ...> Full Article |
 | The belief among some archeologists that Europeans introduced alcohol to the Indians of the American Southwest may be faulty. ...> Full Article |
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