Deep in the Andes mountains, the weathered walls of an ancient town poke out from the dried dirt. The ruins were discovered in the northern Argentinian Hualfin Valley by archaeologists in the 1920s, ...

Several years ago, archaeologists recovered more than 2,500 stone and shell beads from a child’s burial at the Neolithic village of Ba’ja in southern Jordan. Most of the beads were found still in ...

ARLINGTON, Va.- Perforated shells found at South Africa's Blombos Cave appear to have been strung as beads about 75,000 years ago-making them 30,000 years older than any previously identified personal ...

A study reports the discovery of an ancient bead-making settlement on a Florida coastal island. Ancient cities in North America, including inland Midwestern cities like Cahokia, traded in marine ...

Researchers sifting through the ruins of an ancient Inka town found evidence of elite beads often found with human sacrifices, a new study says. María Emilia Iucci CONICET/Universidad Nacional de La ...