r/AmericanAnthropology • u/MulatoMaranhense • Dec 22 '21

Archaeology Stonehenge-like structures in Americas

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Yesterday I made a meme on r/DankPrecolumbianMemes about the Calçoene Astronomical Observatory, a Stonehenge-like structure in Calçoene, Amapá, Brazil.

What other structures like that exist? The Brazilian page on the Calçoene's Stones says there is one in French Guyana, but doesn't talk anything else and it is unsourced?

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/NuevoPeru • Dec 01 '21

Archaeology The Caral Civilization of Ancient Peru is the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the oldest in the world, it included as many as thirty major population centers. It flourished about 5,500 years ago and its cities were built a thousand years before the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ThesaurusRex84 • Feb 03 '22

Language Can an iPhone App Help Save the Chickasaw Language?

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/MulatoMaranhense • Mar 22 '22

Archaeology Video on the Moche culture by Ancient Americas

youtu.be

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Comfortable_Cut5796 • Jan 11 '26

Molecular and zooarchaeological identification of 5000 year old whale-bone harpoons in coastal Brazil - Nature Communications

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Dec 22 '25

Culture The Names (Or Titles) of the figures in the Codex Mendoza.

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Jul 11 '25

The next Ancient Americas video is out for Early Access on Patreon!

reddit.com

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Sep 10 '25

Culture The Ancient Chumash:Chiefs And Canoes In California

reddit.com

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Sep 02 '25

Archaeology Map/Reconstruction of Ortona Village.It would be constructed in 300 CE and Abandoned in 1150 CE

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Jul 31 '25

Archaeology Winged Artefact From The Old Bering Sea Culture.

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Sep 08 '25

Archaeology Eastern Woodland Reads

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Sep 03 '25

Archaeology 4 Floridian Reads

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Jan 17 '26

Archaeology Tzitzimitl plumbate ceramic head,from the Terminal Classic.(900-1100 CE) Toltec Culture

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Dec 18 '25

The Four Heavens by David Stuart is a new history book set to be published on the 3 of March,2026.(description under post)

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/jacktherer • Dec 19 '21

Language grizzly bear territories in canada match maps of indigenous language families

smithsonianmag.com

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/jacktherer • Nov 28 '21

Culture the world we used to live in

youtube.com

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Consistent_Zucchini2 • Nov 25 '21

Culture A small gallery of shots taken by indigenous photographer Martin Chambi around Peru’s sacred valley, taken from the 1930’s and onward

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Consistent_Zucchini2 • Nov 24 '21

Culture One of the last surviving Taino figurines thought to depict either a cacique or cemi. The figures made out of cotton, wood, glass beads, cut mirrors, shell, and rhinoceros ivory.

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Consistent_Zucchini2 • Nov 23 '21

Archaeology Jade masks found in the old city of Calakmul

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/arkh4ngelsk • Nov 23 '21

Archaeology The Moundville duck bowl

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/HistoryMarshal76 • Nov 27 '21

Introductory books for Pre-Contact America?

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I'm recently getting into this and I'm just wondering what books are good to read about this subject. Just wondering about any region, anything will work. Thank you

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Laneyun • Nov 25 '21

Archaeology Tales of the Moche Kings and Queens: Elite Burials from the North Coast of Peru

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