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Indigenous Ashaninka DNA helps geneticists write new chapters of pre-colonial history in South America

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously ...
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This Colonial Gem Might Be the Most Photogenic City in South America

This historic, colonial city feels like one gorgeous, picture-perfect spot followed by another. The buildings are splashed with color – red, gold, pink, and blue everywhere. Vines, bushes, flowers, ...
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Journeys to new worlds : Spanish and Portuguese colonial art in the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection / edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt with Mark A. Castro ...

Foreword / Timothy Rub -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Joseph J. Rishel -- Maps -- The joy of discovery : a conversation with Roberta and Dick Huber / with Joseph J. Rishel and Mark A. Castro -- ...
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Spanish dominates South America, but its linguistic map tells a richer story

Across South America , it’s the colour orange on the language map ... underscoring the continent’s diverse colonial history.
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Children in colonial America / edited by James Marten ; with a foreword by Philip J. Greven

Part I. Race and colonization. 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R.