Science Archaeology Lavish gravesite confirms women’s power in ancient South America The Caral civilization flourished from 3000–1800 BCE. Andrew Paul Apr 28, 2025 11:44 AM EDT ...

So, humans ended up going the long way around. Of course, it wasn’t a planned thing. Nobody back then knew South America even existed. People just kept wandering over the horizon to the next place.

Researchers have found evidence of butchery marks on the back of an ancient armadillo-like animal, suggesting humans were in South America 20,000 years ago -- earlier than many researchers thought.

Ancient humans in South America may have kept foxes as pets, according to archaeologists. Their finding comes from excavations at a grave site in northwest Patagonia in Argentina, named Cañada Seca.

Instead, we think these spurges tracked the moving continents from South America to Asia, to the other side of the world. You can't go much farther than that without leaving the planet.

Ancient rock engravings in what’s now South America — believed to be among the largest in the world — were meant to mark the boundaries of the territories inhabited by their makers ...

A slew of newly found artefacts in South America are revealing surprisingly familiar ways ancient people in the region expressed their creativity, including sculpted figurines, a communal drum and ...

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Previous excavations dated Casarabe society, which covered an area ...

Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America.