Coprolites and artifacts recovered from the Huecoid and Saladoid archaeological sites. Credit: Chanlatte and Narganes, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ...

DNA analysis of mummified poop reveals two pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures ate a wide variety of plants, like maize, sweet potato, and peanuts—and tobacco and cotton traces were detected too, ...

THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYA—J. Leslie Mitchell—Dutton ($3.75). The Conquest of the Maya is written by an archeologist who is also a novelist, hence an enemy of dry-as-dust procedure. Mr. Mitchell insists ...

NMAI copy 39088019919752 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Archaeology, ideology, and pre-Columbian cultural evolution : the search for an approach / Arthur A. Demarest -- Ideology and ...

A new study shows that pre-Columbian people of a culturally diverse but not well-documented area of the Amazon in South America significantly altered their landscape thousands of years earlier than ...

Thanks to this agave, given the scientific name of “sanpedroensis” because it was found along the San Pedro River, it is known that the Hohokam culture (800-1450 AD) knew how to domesticate plants ...

In the mid 20th Century, Ecuadorian historian Jacinto Jijon Y Caamano set out to investigate the remains of a suspected pre-Columbian settlement close to the town of Manta, on Ecuador's Pacific ...

Poop is an unlikely biographer of human life, but it can hold rich and varied stories. Fossilized feces, known as coprolites, have revealed the diets of ancient humans, what their gut bacteria ...

While Europe is my passion and the focus of my work, Central America has long held a fascination for me. I took my first trip to the region in 1988, during El Salvador’s civil war. Over the years, ...

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