American ecologist and author Paul Rosolie achieved a unique feat by filming, for the first time, an Amazonian tribe completely isolated from the modern world. These images of the Nomoles, filmed ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have uncovered an ancient structure that rivals the size of some modern cities. Utilizing advanced technologies like LIDAR, scientists have revealed vast, ...

Analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that precolonial peoples in the Bolivian Amazon likely fed ducks more than 1,000 years ago, a study reports. The research, published in the ...

Archaeologists, relying on laser technology and decades of research, mapped a cluster of ancient cities in eastern Ecuador. Their findings add to evidence of dense settlements in Amazonia. By Alan ...

Archaeological discoveries reveal traces of ancient civilizations in the Amazon. Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ...

An estimated 90 percent of human Amazonian history is lost within the jungle itself. A new discovery has uncovered a small-but-substantial piece of that history. Using LIDAR, archeologists uncovered a ...

The authors of a new study say they have found 24 previously unrecorded pre-Columbian earthworks in the Amazon, and they estimate there may be more than 10,000 such sites still hidden throughout the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Recent archaeological findings, bolstered by laser-based lidar mapping and by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain, reveal that the Amazon supported vast ...