Today’s cultivated peanut plants are a hybrid of two very similar wild plants, Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis. So, researchers led by David Bertioli of the Universidade de Brasília and the University of Georgia,...
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Feb 20, 2016 | Hola Ciudad
La instalación de un acelerógrafo permitirá determinar las zonas más vulnerables ante los sismos en la Ciudad Sagrada de Caral, construida hace más de 5.000 años y considerada la más antigua de América, informaron hoy las autoridades de Cultura de...
Feb 19, 2016 | DW
The Selva Maya is home to immense biodiversity - and the ancient Maya city of Tikal. Today, the forest is under threat but NGOs and locals are working together to save it, along with their livelihoods.
Feb 18, 2016 | http://www.inah.gob.mx/
Fruto del trabajo de quien entabló un diálogo cercano con las culturas mesoamericanas a través de la arqueología, el acervo del maestro Román Piña Chan (1920-2001) —quien hizo del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) su casa...
Feb 16, 2016 | Archaeology.org
The Aztecs did creative things with severed heads. Archaeologists at Mexico City’s Aztec temple complex have found 35 human skulls mortared together with a mix of sand, limestone, and volcanic rock.
Feb 11, 2016 | Ancient Origins
Archaeologists have unearthed more than 200 intriguing artifacts, including elaborate sculptures and ritualistic relics, just 4 weeks into excavations at archaeological ruins in the jungle of Honduras, believed to be the legendary ‘White City...
Feb 09, 2016 | National Geographic
More than 200 elaborate sculptures hint at the rituals and the tragic end of a lost city in Honduras.
Feb 03, 2016 | Andina
A total of 4,150 cultural heritage artifacts found in Argentina have returned to Peru, which is the largest batch of cultural goods recovered so far, the Foreign Affairs Ministry informed.
Jan 30, 2016 | Cronica Libre
La firma del comodato que entrega una amplia área urbana a la Municipalidad de Puerto Montt por parte del Fisco de Chile permitirá la construcción del futuro Museo de Monte Verde que albergará cientos de piezas y hallazgos arqueológicos del sitio...
Jan 27, 2016 | El Comercio
La iglesia de San Francisco, construida hace 444 años y el edificio más antiguo de Santiago de Chile que ha sobrevivido a innumerables terremotos en la zona más sísmica del planeta, podría tener la clave del conocimiento precolombino en materia...
Jan 26, 2016 | INAH
En el mismo predio de la calle Guatemala, en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, donde en 2010 se localizó el Templo de Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl, deidad mexica del viento, arqueólogos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)...
Jan 26, 2016 | Smithsonian Mag
Most tourists are drawn to Mexico's big-name destinations, like the pre-Hispanic ruins of Chichén Itzá or the crowded plazas of Mexico City. But the country is dotted with lesser-known ruins and other cultural sites, too—places that go far...
Jan 25, 2016 | Archaeology.org
Scholars have long assumed that the people the Aztecs sacrificed at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlán were prisoners of war who were killed soon after being captured.
Jan 25, 2016 | Archaeology.org
A team of archaeologists from Peru’s Culture Ministry excavating at El Paraiso, the oldest known site in Lima, has discovered the head of a ceramic figure and the tomb of a woman.
Jan 25, 2016 | Peru 21
Hallazgo en El Paraíso, en la zona rural de San Martín de Porres, se remonta al periodo arcaico tardío.
Jan 21, 2016 | Tennessee Today
The McClung Museum will host Maya: Lords of Time, an exhibition investigating the ancient Maya civilization’s fascination with time. The exhibit opens January 23 and runs through May 22.
Jan 19, 2016 | DW
En la Selva Maya viven 750 tipos de animales y más de 3000 tipos de plantas. Casi ninguna otra región de la Tierra tiene una biodiversidad tan grande. Pero este ecosistema está amenazado: la población crece y, con ella, la explotación del bosque.
Jan 19, 2016 | Peru This Week
The Ministry of Culture announced the museum that will become Peru’s largest and most modern museum of archaeology.
Jan 17, 2016 | The Guardian
President Juan Orlando Hernández flew in to endorse claims of a legendary ‘city of the Monkey God’ but scientists are sceptical and indigenous group furious.
Jan 17, 2016 | La Capital
Algunas son artesanías de la cultura valdivia, de unos 3.500 años de antigüedad, confiscadas en contrabandos y ventas ilegales. También serán restituidos 3.150 objetos a Perú.