An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a mysterious culture's lost city, never before explored. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site...
News
Feb 25, 2015 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
El chamanismo en las comunidades indígenas de México se ha mantenido vigente por más de 3 mil 500 años, debido a que se ha ido transformando de acuerdo con las necesidades de los distintos grupos sociales, expresaron los antropólogos Miguel A....
Feb 23, 2015 | Archaeology.org
An international project funded by the European Research Council will search the Amazon River Basin for clues to the forest’s inhabitants for the past 3,000 years. Jose Iriarte of the University of Exeter says that recent work has shown that...
Feb 22, 2015 | USA Today
An ancient mortuary where bits of human corpses apparently were defleshed and cleaned to yield easy-to-carry pieces has been discovered in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in South America.
Feb 21, 2015 | New York Times
A group of Guatemalan musicians is on a mission to breathe life into a pre-Columbian language and heritage through a thoroughly modern genre: hip-hop. Calling themselves Balam Ajpu, which means Jaguar Warrior or Warrior of Light, they rap in...
Feb 20, 2015 | Live Science
Most Maya murals feature the royal family, but a rare find in northeastern Guatemala shows a mysterious group of men, called obsidians, advising the king. The mural, painted on the walls of a rectangular room found in the Maya city of Xultun, was...
Feb 19, 2015 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
“La que se ornamenta las mejillas con cascabeles”, es el significado en español del nombre de la Coyolxauhqui, pieza escultórica emblemática de la cultura mexica, que fue descubierta el 21 de febrero de 1978 en el corazón del Centro...
Feb 19, 2015 | Recent News on Artdaily.org
In a festival enlivened with music and mezcal booze, Mexican Indians held fist fights Tuesday re-enacting battles with marauding Aztecs 500 years ago. The battles among members of the Nahua Indian community were part of Carnival celebrations in the...
Feb 18, 2015 | Peru This Week
A man who claims ownership over a plot of land in Cajamarca, leveled what was once an archaeological complex and built a fence enclosure over it, according to El Comercio.
Feb 17, 2015 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
A casi un siglo de que Manuel Gamio cavara cuatro túneles en la cantera de Copilco, donde encontró —debajo de la lava que dejó la erupción del volcán Xitle— vestigios de una aldea prehispánica que data del periodo Preclásico o Formativo...
Feb 16, 2015 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
La presencia de fragmentos de pintura mural y la calidad de las construcciones con muy buenos acabados, así como su localización central dentro de la antigua ciudad de Teotihuacan, señalan que el conjunto apartamental denominado Totometla fue...
Feb 13, 2015 | Phys.org - Archaeology & Fossils
A new international project led by the University of Exeter will investigate the Amazon's sustainable future by studying the way that ancient societies used and transformed the environment. The study is pioneering a remote sensing data device...
Feb 13, 2015 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
El hallazgo de los primeros vestigios del Templo Mayor, en 1914, vino a marcar el inicio de un nuevo periodo en la arqueología mexicana, debido a que la investigación sobre el pasado prehispánico se volvió una búsqueda de las raíces mexicanas,...
Feb 13, 2015 | Archaeology.org
Hair samples taken from 14 mummies discovered in Peru’s Paracas Necropolis of Wari Kayan, and two artifacts made of human hair, have been analyzed by a team made up of Kelly Knudson of Arizona State University, Ann H. Peters of the University...
Feb 12, 2015 | Anthropology in the news from Texas A&M University
Mummies excavated nearly a century ago are yielding new information about past lifeways through work conducted in Arizona State University's Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory.
Feb 12, 2015 | Smithsonian.com
On a sunny morning in San Francisco's Mission District, half a dozen men and women scoot around a tiny chocolate factory, wrapping bars, checking temperature settings, sorting beans. Cacao beans that have been fermented, dried, roasted, shelled...
Feb 10, 2015 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
La exposición Mayas, revelación de un tiempo sin fin registró una afluencia de 223,581 personas durante su exhibición en el Museo de quai Branly, en París, Francia, lo que la convierte en la segunda más visitada de las 65 muestras temporales que ha...
Feb 10, 2015 | Google News - Mesoamerica
University professor researches Mesoamerican fishing practices.
'Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama' opens at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia
Feb 09, 2015 | Recent News on Artdaily.org
For more than a thousand years, a cemetery on the banks of the Rio Grande Coclé in Panama lay undisturbed, escaping the attention of gold seekers and looters. The river flooded in 1927, scattering beads of gold along its banks. In 1940, a Penn...
Feb 07, 2015 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
Como parte de la primera temporada de campo (2014) del proyecto “Registro, protección e investigación arqueológica en la planicie costera noroccidental de Nayarit” fueron localizados un total de 57 sitios arqueológicos de origen...