Dr. Luis Pezo-Lanfranco and his colleagues conducted stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the diets of 38 human individuals from the early Central Andean civilization of Vichama (1800 BCE–1300 CE).

Archaeologists have unveiled Peñico, an ancient lost city in Peru’s northern Barranca province. Located about 120 miles north of Lima at almost 2,000 feet elevation, Peñico is finally revealed after ...

SANTIAGO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published, opens new tab in the Science journal on ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

A diver with a bowl recovered from the Tiwanaku site. (Teddy Seguin) The mysterious Inca Empire is a source of endless fascination to many, representing the largest and most elaborate society of ...

What if Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization high in the Andes Mountains, where not much grows. UC ...

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. "John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean ...

Researchers looked at data about violence over centuries in the area that is now Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia. (Getty Images) The extent to which “civilization” heightens or lessens the likelihood ...