Category: Peru
When the Spanish conquistador Hernando Pizarro arrived at Pachacamac, Peru, in January 1533, he had…
Archaeologists investigating the Late Formative Period temple complex at Pacopampa (featured in CWA 75) discovered…
Nadia Durrani, former editor of CWA During my time as editor of CWA, I visited…
Archaeological sites that take years to record using traditional methods could be mapped in minutes,…
By Melissa A VogelUniversity Press of Florida, £64.50 ISBN 978-0813037967 This is the first English-language work…
The discovery of an intact Moche royal tomb was like something out of an Indiana…
Why were the bodies of a dozen newborn babies placed around the edge of a…
Tiffiny A. TungUniversity Press of Florida, £64.50 ISBN 978-0813037677Between AD 600-1000, the Wari Empire represented…
The discovery of a 13th-century priestess at a ritual site in northern Peru is forcing…
The oldest corncobs unearthed in South America have been found in Peru. Dating to 6,700…
Exactly 100 years ago, the explorer Hiram Bingham found Machu Picchu on the eastern slopes…
The fact that llamas defecate communally so that their dung is easily gathered underpins the…