Mexico’s National Institute of Archaeology and History has announced the discovery of a five-foot-tall relief carved by the Olmecs more than 2,800 years ago at the site of Chalcatzingo. The relief depicts three cats surrounded by scroll decorations. Lapita pottery has been unearthed on Vanua Levu for the first time, suggesting that the first people to arrive […]

Evidence of a devastating fire in southern Peru at the site of Taraco, and the rise of neighboring Pukara, suggest that the two states fought a war in the first century. “In the century that Pukara peaked, the site of Taraco was attacked, and [it] ceased to be a political power in the region,” explained Charles […]