They would then travel further over land, to South American gold mines operated by European colonizers. As a scholar of ...

These include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile. South America is the fourth largest continent, with around 423 million people living there. There is a hot and wet climate in the Amazon ...

These islands are roughly 6,800 km from South America. People from Chile's Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, also had South American ancestry, some from modern Chilean immigrants and some from the same ...

and dire wolves that once roamed North and South America. But new research from several sites is starting to suggest that people came to the Americas earlier — perhaps far earlier — than once ...