A burial in Patagonia along South America’s Atlantic coast is offering new clues about early human settlement. The peopling of the continent remains widely debated. Researchers have proposed several routes for how hunter-gatherers spread across South America.
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Scientists have reconstructed more than 6,000 years of human history in South America's southern regions. The findings reveal that ancient populations were far more genetically complex and geographically mobile than archaeology alone had suggested.
The study was led by Kim-Louise...
A landmark archaeological site in Chile that shaped scientific understanding of when humans first arrived in the Americas may be tens of thousands of years younger than once believed, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
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The hunting of large whales began thousands of years earlier than scientists once believed, according to new research from South America that is reshaping long-held views of early maritime societies.
Researchers report that Indigenous coastal communities were hunting large cetaceans...
US President Donald Trump said on a Truth Social post on Saturday morning that Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has been captured.
Trump announced on Truth Social: "The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against...
Carlos Kaiser was supposed to be a footballer, playing in the position of striker—a role focused on scoring goals in football. However, he did not run towards defenders, he didn't shoot the ball properly, and he couldn't dribble. He...
Fieldwork in a little-studied corner of the Bolivian Amazon has revealed that Indigenous communities shaped and sustained complex, productive wetland landscapes for more than a millennium, a new study says.
Researchers who explored the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltación in...
Scientists announced Tuesday the discovery of a new dinosaur in Patagonia, Argentina, with a crocodile bone in the jaw of its skeleton. The discovery is labelled as one of the most complete specimens yet found of the enigmatic megaraptoran...
A remarkable fossil has revealed the largest predator of the species Pampaphoneus biccai. This astonishing discovery dates back to a staggering 265 million years and was unearthed in the rural region of São Gabriel, located in Southern Brazil.
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