‘Diverse’ South American Indigenous peoples descend from three migration waves
Ethnic groups of the Upper Xingu gather annually at the Quarup. The origin of Indigenous peoples is more complex than previously known. Credit: Mário Vilella/ FUNAI. CC0. South American Indigenous peoples are diverse and descend from a third wave of migration,...
Native Americans used dice millennia before the Bronze Age
Folsom diagnostic and probable Native American dice. (a, b, d, and g: Agate Basin, Wyoming. c: Lindenmeier, Colorado. e–f, h–i, k–p, r: Lindenmeier, Colorado. j: Lindenmeier, Colorado. q: Blackwater Draw, New Mexico; drawing by D’arcy NR Madden after Hester (1972:...
Indigenous Peoples have thrived in the Amazon for more than 1,000 years
Excavation at the Jasschaja site. Photo: C Jaimes. Landscapes that remember: new clues show Indigenous Peoples have thrived in the southwestern Amazon for more than a thousand years. In September 2021, a multidisciplinary expedition explored one of the least-known...