"It's been 16 years since I started doing this," recounts Johan Reinhard, easily the world's leading high altitude cultural anthropologist and archaeologist. "I began very much interested in ...

Llamas were a prize possession to the Inca people, providing food and materials for clothing. But a recent discovery has found Incas were sacrificing their llamas to appease their gods. It was already ...

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When Alexei Vranich, an archaeology visiting assistant professor in the College of Letters and Science, was thinking about an innovative and memorable final project for students in his winter quarter ...

Centuries of archaeological research on the Inca Empire has netted a veritable library of knowledge. But new digital and data-driven projects are proving that there is much more to discover about ...

Workers and retainers at the famous mountain estate came from throughout the empire, with some even coming from the Amazonas region. A diverse set of people hailing from all over the Inca empire lived ...

Despite its title, “The Lost Inca Gold: AI Meets Space Archaeology,” is a love letter to Maine at its core. Dr. William Wood, the author, is not only from Rockland but attended The University of Maine ...

John Howland Rowe, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology who dedicated much of his life to uncovering Peruvian archaeology, died May 1 in a Berkeley nursing home of complications from ...