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Lima to restore pre-Incan aqueducts to alleviate its water crisis

Ariel Mark 16 Apr 2015

Discovery of ‘Lost City’ spurs conservation pledge

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2015

Drones to scan the Amazon rainforest for hidden civilizations

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2015

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

Kim Smuga-Otto 1 Dec 2014

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

Through careful management, indigenous people have shaped Asian rainforests for 11,000 years

Loren Bell 28 Jan 2014

Madagascar occupied by humans 2,500 years earlier than previously thought

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 5 Jul 2012

Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancient Africa

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2012

Prehistoric Peruvians enjoyed popcorn

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2012

Evidence mounts that Maya did themselves in through deforestation

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2011

Scientists confirm ancient Egyptian knowledge: Nile crocodile is two species

Jeremy Hance 20 Sep 2011

Better protection of cultural heritage sites could generate $100B in poor countries

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2010

Destructive farming practices of early civilization may have altered climate long before industrial era

Jeremy Hance 31 Aug 2009

Examining monkey tools: archaeology expands to include non-human primates

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Aug 2009

Chocolate has been a delicacy north of Mexico for a thousand years

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2009

European conquest of the Americas may have driven global cooling

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2008

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2008

Heavily-populated Amazon was decimated by old world disease

Jeremy Hance 9 Jun 2008

Ancient Amazon fires linked to human populations

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Feb 2008

Missing link between humans and apes possibly discovered

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2007

Chocolate first used more than 3100 years ago

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2007

Climate change drove human evolution

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2007

Crop domestication originated in compost piles

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2007

Failing water supply destroyed lost city of Angkor Wat

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2007

Killers of renowned anthropologist sentenced in Brazil

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2007

Peanuts, cotton, squash first farmed in Peru 6,000-10,000 years ago

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2007

Polynesians brought chickens to Americas before Columbus

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2007

Global warming killed Neanderthals in Spain

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2007

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