For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Researchers studying an ancient form of string-writing used in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a ...

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of important genetic diversity.

innovation and initiative in regions south of the US – especially in Mesoamerica and the Andean world, where agriculture began, dense populations multiplied, civilizations formed, great cities arose ...

more famous Mesoamerican societies like the Maya and Aztecs. The Olmec heads are among the largest non-architectural monuments ever discovered in Mexico, ranging between roughly 3.5 and 11.5 feet ...

Iraí and BRS MG Realce are the only Andean common bean cultivars registered for cultivation in RS state. The other common bean cultivars used as control belong to the Mesoamerican gene pool, and have ...

The San Pedro cactus, which has been used for thousands of years by Andean communities in northern ... This ancient Mesoamerican purification ritual originated in what is now Mexico and Central ...

Strategies were investigated for improving efficiency in the use of segregating common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) populations using crosses between the Andean cultivar BRS-Radiante and the Mesoamerican ...

Maybe it’s the tiny golden llama in the Mesoamerican and Andean room or the visual explosion of vintage teaware in the Porcelain Room. The juxtaposition of contemporary artist Thaddeas Mosley ...

Evidence points to the Zapotec civilization, which followed the Olmecs, as the birthplace of Mesoamerica’s first written calendar. The Andean Civilization was a complex society that lived along ...