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Archaeologists find hidden chamber beneath ancient Peruvian temple - Enlarge / The circular plaza at Chavin de Huantar—once a ceremonial gat... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1860458 #pre-columbiancivilizations #indigenoussouthamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #archaeology #science #peru

Archaeologists find hidden chamber beneath ancient Peruvian temple - Enlarge / The circular plaza at Chavin de Huantar—once a ceremonial gat... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1860458 #pre-columbiancivilizations #indigenoussouthamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #archaeology #science #peru

Inca priests plied child sacrificial victims with drugs - Enlarge (credit: By Nilsf - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wik... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854322 #pre-columbiancivilizations #ancientsouthamerica #humansacrifice #archaeology #incanempire #ayahuasca #science #cocaine #chicha #inca

This is the oldest known use of the Maya calendar - Enlarge / An artist's sketch of what the 300-200 BCE temple complex at ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1848248 #pre-columbiancivilizations #ancientcentralamerica #ancientsouthamerica #mayacalendar #archaeology #mesoamerica #science #maya

Ancient Peruvian was buried with tools for cranial surgery - (credit: Sican National Museum)

Archaeologists recently uneart... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1847849 #indigenoussouthamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #indigenouscommunities #ancientsouthamerica #indigenousamericans #archaeology #incanempire #science #surgery #peru

A tsunami wiped out ancient communities the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago - Enlarge (credit: Salazar et al. 2022)

A recent study of geolog... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1846629 #pre-columbiancivilizations #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #naturaldisasters #geoarchaeology #atacamadesert #archaeology #earthquakes #tsunamis #science #geology #chile

Pre-Columbian people in the Atacama raised parrots for their feathers - Enlarge / Scarlet macaws (credit: Abul Az Abu Jamil)
Centuries ago, indigenous South Americans br... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1753032 #pre-columbiancivilizations #indigenoussouthamerica #ancientcentralamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #biologicalarchaeology #indigenouscommunities #ancientsouthamerica #zooarchaeology #atacamadesert #archaeology #science #parrots

A giant cat picture was just discovered among the Nazca Lines - Enlarge / The cat is drawn from the side, with its head turned toward the viewer. (credit: Johny Is... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1715622 #pre-columbiancivilizations #indigenoussouthamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #archaeology #nascalines #nazcalines #geoglyphs #science #nasca #nazca #cats

3,400-year-old Mesoamerican ball court sheds light on origins of the game - Enlarge (credit: University of Oregon)
Millennia ago, the stone court would have hosted teams of ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1662190 #pre-columbiancivilizations #ancientcentralamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #aztecculture #archaeology #mesoamerica #science #mexico #sports #olmec #maya

Archaeologists found 143 more images among the Nasca Lines - Archaeologists have rediscovered 143 more enormous drawings called geoglyphs etched on the ro... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1626481 #pre-columbiancivilizations #southamericanarchaeology #ancientsouthamerica #machinelearning #southamerica #archaeology #nascalines #science #nasca #peru

Warring Maya kingdoms razed enemy cities to the ground - Enlarge / This is all that remains of Naranjo, the city-state that attacked and destroyed neighbori... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1546379 #pre-columbiancivilizations #southamericanarchaeology #ancientcentralamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #ancientwarfare #sedimentcore #archaeology #science #maya

Ancient Peruvian engineering could help solve modern water shortages - Enlarge / Diversion canals channel water into earth-bottomed infiltration canals like this one, whe... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1526321 #pre-columbiancivilizations #ancientinfrastructure #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #waterinfrastructure #civilengineering #archaeology #science #peru #wari

Ancient Bolivian ritual kit contains traces of hallucinogens - Enlarge / This is a view of the Cueva del Chileno excavation site. (credit: José Capriles, Penn Sta... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1500413 #pre-columbiancivilizations #southamericanarchaeology #ancientsouthamerica #massspectrometry #archaeology #ayahuasca #tiwanaku #science #bolivia #cocaine

How to brew ancient Wari beer - Enlarge (credit: Donna Nash)
When the people of the Wari Empire (predecessors of the Inca) abando... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1497851 #pre-columbiancivilizations #southamericanarchaeology #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientsouthamerica #anthropology #archaeology #science #inca #wari