RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police seized three pre-Columbian archaeological pieces on Friday that had been auctioned at a Rio de Janeiro art galley, they said, adding they plan to ...

In the late 13th century, the American southwest was hit by a major drought. When resources were exhausted and agriculture failed, some groups of people were forced to migrate out of the region.

There are many takes on the healing power of art, but a new initiative at Lima’s Museo Larco is taking things past second base. The Museo Larco’s permanent collection holds a vast array of ...

The works of sculptor Jane Higley, Natalia Melendez Rosa and members of Rosa’s recent class “Pre-Columbian Pottery” are on display this month at the Fire Arts Center Gallery, 520 South G St. in Arcata ...

While working in Quito, Ecuador, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Larry Gardner spent weekends learning about Andean culture and artifacts. “My wife & I developed a personal relationship with the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are getting a better taste of the early history of the domestication and use of cacao - the source of chocolate - thanks to residues detected on a batch of ancient ...

LIMA, Peru — On Sept. 22, Carlos Lalangui was digging a trench to make way for a natural gas pipeline on the outskirts of this city when he spotted fragments of a human skull a dozen inches down in ...

"Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium 'Making Value, Making Meaning : Techné in the Pre-Columbian World, ' held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ...