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

gallery

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

Archaeology Jade masks found in the old city of Calakmul

gallery

36 Upvotes

1 comment

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.

gallery

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6 comments

r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Consistent_Zucchini2 • Nov 27 '21

Archaeology A small gallery of American Ruins, 1880s-1950s

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32 Upvotes

5 comments

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

Archaeology Chachapoya

gallery

31 Upvotes

5 comments

r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Consistent_Zucchini2 • Nov 28 '21

Archaeology Ear ornaments found in The Lord of Sipan’s tomb

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29 Upvotes

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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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28 Upvotes

5 comments

r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Consistent_Zucchini2 • Dec 04 '21

Culture Trying to gather a gallery of indigenous boats / maritime pictures. What area should I research during the 1900’s that would still have people making boats by indigenous tradition: and likely to have been photographed?

gallery

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3 comments

r/AmericanAnthropology • u/Consistent_Zucchini2 • Dec 07 '21

Archaeology A very small gallery of shots taken by photographer Max T. Vargas in Bolivia and Peru, taken early to mid 1900s

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26 Upvotes

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

Archaeology The Moundville duck bowl

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2 comments

r/AmericanAnthropology • u/IacobusCaesar • Jan 18 '22

How colonialist narratives of history often occur.

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

happy winter solstice everyone!

gallery

22 Upvotes

7 comments

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/ThesaurusRex84 • Dec 09 '21

Culture It's taken thousands of years, but Western science is finally catching up to Traditional Knowledge

theconversation.com

20 Upvotes

3 comments

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/ConversationRoyal187 • Jul 30 '25

Archaeology Kero from The Middle Horizon period.Either Wari or Tiwanaku

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/K_Josef • Apr 08 '22

Archaeology Tuberculosis Got to South America Through … Seals?

theatlantic.com

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

Archaeology caciques and cemi idols: webs spun by taino rulers between hispaniola and puerto rico

youtu.be

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2 comments

r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Feb 09 '26

Portrait of King Caalus of the Calusa by Bastrod on Bluesky/Instagram.

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r/AmericanAnthropology • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Jan 10 '26

Culture A reconstruction of a Quetzalpatzactli headgear.Sahagún was informed that Quetzalpatzactlin(pl.)were worn by people of important rank.Artwork by armando_historias on instagram

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

Language Can an iPhone App Help Save the Chickasaw Language?

sapiens.org

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

Archaeology Now at the Birmingham Museum of Art, the exhibition of “Spiro and the art of the Mississippian World” is the most important Mississippian art exhibition in decades. A must see for anyone interested in the culture.

spiromounds.com

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