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An interview with archaeologist Guy Hepp about his experience and knowledge related to the ancient people of Oaxaca in current-day southwestern Mexico.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Quinn’s Auction Galleries of northern Virginia takes pride in announcing a November 3rd Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic Arts Auction featuring a fine array of ...
Chapultepec Forest is an urban park known for its ancient temples. Now it has been discovered it was home to the Mexican Basin’s earliest cultures.
Abstract The study of South American camelids and their domestication is a highly debated topic in zooarchaeology. Identifying the domestic species (alpaca and llama) in archaeological sites based solely on morphological data is challenging due to their similarity with respect to their wild ancestors. Using genetic methods also presents challenges due to the hybridization history of the domestic species, which are thought to have extensively hybridized following the Spanish conquest of South America that resulted in camelids slaughtered en-masse. In this study we generated mitochondrial genom...