First Andes civilization explored
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Archaeologists describe an ancient civilisation that was flourishing in Peru over 5,000 years ago.
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A consortium of nonprofits aim to restore sections of the Inca Road, the 500-year-old route that linked the Inca Empire from present-day Colombia to central Chile.
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What did the first Olympians eat? Food historians are scouring ancient texts to find out.
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Travel: Ian J Griffiths finds himself hooked on the macabre on a fascinating trip on the trail of Peru's ancient dead.
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In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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Venezuelan scientists and military officers set out on their country's first expedition to Antarctica, leaving Friday aboard an Uruguayan naval research ship.
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In a discovery sure to set off a firestorm of debate over human migration to the western hemisphere, archaeologists in South Carolina say they have uncovered evidence that people lived in eastern North America at least 50,000 years ago - far earlier than
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Peruvians 2,300 years ago tracked the movement of the sun using a line of elaborate stone towers erected on a low ridge.
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Researchers find a cache of fossils in Ethiopia belonging to early human ancestors.
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China.
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It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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LONDON - Modern humans began dominating the world far earlier than thought, according to anthropologists who say they&#39;ve discovered fossils of a new human dwarf species.
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A new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world were discovered by scientists.
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
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For 13 years, mountaineer Helmut Simon had basked in the glory of his unique encounter with history. In 1991, the 67-year-old German discovered Otzi the Iceman, the perfectly preserved body of a Neolithic