Modern maize races grown in lowland areas of South America have between eight and 26 rows per ear, whereas the archaeological samples from Peruaçu Valley have between four and six rows.

A cave in Patagonia houses the oldest known pigment-based rock art in South America. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

Near the southernmost tip of South America, people may have started cave painting nearly 8,200 years ago, several millennia earlier than previously suggested by ancient rock art in that area.

CreepyWorld. Divers Discover Ancient Tunnels Leading to America's First Mines and Skeletons in Underwater Caves. Posted: January 1, 2025 | Last updated: April 29, 2025 ...

It was discovered in a nearby cave system in 2007. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is racing to finish his Maya Train project in the remaining two years of his term over the objections of ...

Take a tour of the Maya underworld—if you dare. There are hundreds of caves in Belize that served as portals to what the Maya called Xibalba—home to ancient death gods, rituals, and ...

Ancient Maya 'blood cave' discovered in Guatemala baffles archaeologists. News. ... In a presentation at the annual Society for American Archaeology meeting on April 24, ...

Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 04 / 230424223113.htm ...

The Oregon Caves Chateau, a six-story chateau completed in 1934 beside the ancient marble cave system, closed in 2018 for much-needed repairs that have not yet materialized — in part due to ...

How the Mount Etna's icy caves — and New Jersey — gave America its sweetest summer treat All shaved ice desserts share ancient roots in the semi-frozen dessert known as granita .

In the early 1990s, a survey underneath the archaeological site of Dos Pilas in Petén, Guatemala, revealed more than a dozen caves that were used by the Maya between 400 B.C. and A.D. 250.

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast.