A team has uncovered genetic evidence of a previously unknown population of early settlers in Colombia’s high plains, dating ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

Up to this point, we didn’t believe there was any other lineage that would appear in South America,” said archaeologist Andre ...

A previously unknown ancient population has been uncovered in Colombia, revealing a genetic lineage unlike any seen before in ...

Located near the western coast of South America is a large plain near the Andes Mountains, the Altiplano of the Atacama Desert. Standing at more than 4,000 meters high, this generally cold and dry ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, a group of researchers led by the University of Wyoming found for early humans living 9,000 to 6,500 years ago on the Andes Altiplano (a ...

Photograph by Jamie Lafferty To see them shambling around the Altiplano, this seems almost ... sightings are rare and populations in its native High Andes habitats are declining.

In fact, researchers have long suspected that such subsurface stretching may have contributed to the formation of the Andes. The Central Andean Plateau consists of the Puna and Altiplano plateaus ...

Uturuncu, located in the Andes in southwestern Bolivia ... and extremely deep underground reservoir of magma named the Altiplano-Puna Magma Body (APMB), which stretches beneath southern Bolivia ...