Elmore began the public talk, titled “Afterlives of the Inca: The Long History of Apu Inka Atawallpaman,” with an analysis of an 1867 painting by Peruvian artist Luis Montero depicting the funeral of ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. While today we use the term Inca to refer to all people who were ruled under the empire – from ...

The Inca Empire was a marvel of its time. The rulers managed to conquer territory from Colombia to Argentina and Chile, spanning the mountain ranges, coastlines, jungles and plains of six modern day ...

When the Yale University history lecturer Hiram Bingham III encountered the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru 100 years ago, on July 24, 1911, archaeologists and explorers around the world (including ...

Students analyze actual data from two prehistoric communities—a hunting community and an agricultural community—to infer the impacts of diet on health. Anthropologists can learn a lot about a ...