Excavated artifacts included this toucan beak decorated with green and brown beads. Long before the Incas, there were the Carals. Named after its capitol city, the first known South American culture ...

NMAI copy 39088012457628 is gift from the Library of Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Contents pt. 1. South American culture in perspective. South America at the European conquest -- South America in relation to ...

Two thousand years before the Incas built their vast empire in the Andes, another society carved its identity into stone and smoke. At the ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar, nestled 10,000 feet ...

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