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Easter Island’s Birdman Cult: A Story of Struggle and Survival
... Even though Easter Island is officially a part of Chile, it is actually 3,686 kilometers (2,290 mi) away. The ... e Kenatea . Birdman petroglyph carvings on Easter Island, Chile. ( diegograndi / Adobe stock) Easter Island’s Moai ...
Aleksa Vučković - 06/02/2020 - 13:42
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Stone tool unearthed in Oregon may date back 15,800 years or more
... southwest of the Rimrock site. The other is Monte Verde in Chile. Both are dated about 1,000 years before the oldest ... roamed the area.” Archaeological site in Monte Verde, Chile, where ancient tools have been found ( Wikimedia ...
Mark Miller - 09/03/2015 - 01:14
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Hidden Rapa Nui: Easter Island’s Cults, Cannibals, and Cultural Connections
... miles (3,500 km) west beyond the coast of Chile, in the dark blue belly of the southeastern Pacific ... miles (3,500 km) west beyond the coast of Chile, in the dark blue belly of the southeastern Pacific ...
Mark A. Carpenter - 07/02/2021 - 18:05
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Pukao Study Claims Easter Island had a Cooperative Community Not A Warrior Culture
Analysis of these giant stone hats found on Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) provides evidence contrary to the ... Analysis of these giant stone hats found on Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) provides evidence contrary to the ...
ancient-origins - 23/12/2017 - 01:56
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Matching Myth and Genetics: Revealing the Origins of the Inca Through Modern DNA
... the South of Colombia and the North of Argentina and Chile. The Inca people arrived at Cusco valley and in a few ... the South of Colombia and the North of Argentina and Chile. In contrast with the richness of archaeological and ...
ancient-origins - 12/04/2018 - 14:02
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Mystery Solved For Football Sized Antarctica Fossil
... of the team who found the fossil , David Rubilar-Rogers of Chile’s National Museum of Natural History, was mystified ...
Ed Whelan - 19/06/2020 - 19:01
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Mice Remains Indicate a Viking Visit to Madeira
... forward an untenable theory to account for the presence in Chile of the Bundsö dogs from Denmark before Columbus. In a ... forward an untenable theory to account for the presence in Chile of the Bundsö dogs from Denmark before Columbus. I was ...
Geoffrey Brooks - 03/07/2020 - 22:42
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Capacocha: Ritualized Child Sacrifice in the Inca Empire
... empire so large it spread from modern Ecuador to central Chile. The Inca were an impressive people. From the 1400s to ... empire so large it spread from modern Ecuador to central Chile. Master builders that rivaled the ancient Egyptians, ...
Robbie Mitchell - 04/01/2023 - 13:52
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10 Jaw-dropping Engineering Marvels of the Inca Empire
... empire stretched from Ecuador to the north, to central Chile in the south. The Inca were an illustrious ancient ... empire stretched from Ecuador to the north, to central Chile in the south. Many of the remnants of their incredible ...
Aleksa Vučković - 29/04/2023 - 18:42
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The Deadly Toxin Found in the World's Oldest Mummies (Video)
... Egyptian mummies by thousands of years. Found in Chile's Atacama desert, these mummies gained global attention ... mummies release a deadly toxin. The inhabitants of Arica, Chile, who live in close proximity to these mummies, have ...
Robbie Mitchell - 16/06/2023 - 16:53
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Who Stole the Gold? The Smoke Clears Around the Tayos Caves in Ecuador
... Napo System of Caves stretching from Venezuela to Chile. The Tayos Caves ( Cuevas de los Tayos in Spanish) in ... Napo System of Caves stretching from Venezuela to Chile. The Tayos Caves have long been a site of controversy, ...
Heidi Schultz - 10/11/2018 - 14:03
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Analysis Shows Children were Given Drugs and Alcohol before Ritual Sacrifice 500 Years Ago
... at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago, Chile. (Jason Quinn/ CC BY SA 3.0 ) The Maiden also stood ...
aprilholloway - 10/08/2017 - 01:59
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A Message on the Shore: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part II
... in Cerro Castillo National Reserve, Aysén Region, Chile. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) There is a possible solution. During ...
William James Veall - 25/08/2017 - 22:57
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Born for the Seas and Honor: Examining the Modest Life of the Spanish Navy Officer, Casto Mendez Nunez
... In early April 1866, Spain's relations with Peru and Chile became very tense. Mendez Nunez received an order to ... wounds in the legs and side. William Gibbons "Valparaíso Chile during the bombardment by the admiral Méndez Núñez" ...
Natalia Klimczak - 01/02/2016 - 03:36
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Gallic Warriors Reaped, Embalmed Then Displayed the Heads of Their Slain Enemies
... oldest embalmed humans found were in the Atacama desert, Chile. ( CC BY 2.0 ) More ancient embalmers While this latest ... Chinchorro culture in the Atacama desert of present-day Chile and Peru who performed artificial mummification as ...
ashley cowie - 08/11/2018 - 18:51
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The Inca Empire: What Made it so Powerful?
... from northern Ecuador all the way south to central Chile and ruled over a population of 12 million, from over ... Tupac also pushed the Inca Empire into modern-day central Chile, which was the empire’s southernmost extent. ... to build and is today located in Argentina , Bolivia, Chile , Colombia, Ecuador , and Peru . This sophisticated ...
dhwty - 09/11/2019 - 23:05
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Ferdinand Magellan: Defying all Odds in a Voyage around the World
... Nao Victoria, Magellan's boat replica in Punta Arenas, Chile. Wikimedia Commons According to the records written by ...
dhwty - 19/04/2015 - 01:00
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Did the Pre-Clovis Cultures in America Originate from Japan?
... and evergreen softwood forests of mountainous southern Chile. A UNESCO article informs that artifacts predating the ... ( CC BY-SA 2.0) Researchers from the Austral University of Chile discovered among ancient homes the remains of wild ...
ashley cowie - 11/10/2019 - 20:20
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Head Lice on South American Mummies Shed Light on Ancient Virus Spread
The scientific understanding of ancient South American ancestry and the future of DNA research just got a whole lot clearer thanks to mummy hair lice. Two thousand years ago the pre-Columbian Ansilta culture thrived in the western Argentine province of San Juan, which is famous for its towering peak of Cerro Mercedario that dominates the Andes near the Chilean border.
ashley cowie - 29/12/2021 - 22:00
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Rapa Nui Obsidian Discovery: Did the Islanders sail to America?
... at the Academy of Christian Humanism University in Chile and one of the study authors, told Live Science in an ...
Sahir - 23/03/2024 - 16:30