10 Mysterious Archaeological Discoveries From South America

From cat claws made of metal to enormous treasure lost in the sea, here are 10 archaeological discoveries made in South America. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 10. Feline Attire Of all the things you might expect to find in a tomb, this isn’t one of them! Scientists were excavating a tomb of a nobleman in Peru when they came across ancient cat claws. 9. Biggest Terrestrial Animal of All Time In Argentina in 1987, a farmer stumbled across what he thought was a large chunk of petrified wood the size of a person. It turned out to be a single vertebra belonging to a new species of dinosaur- the Argentinosaurus. 8. Monte Verde Archaeologists unearthed the oldest confirmed remnants of a human presence in South America during the 1970s at the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, near the continent’s southern tip. There, they found wads of chewed-up seaweed, which people likely used for medicinal reasons, food scraps, a child’s footprint and evidence of huts dating back 14,000 years. 7. Sechin Bajo Sechin Bajo is an archaeological site situated on the northwestern coast of Peru that is believed to have served as the capital of a pre-Incan culture between 1800 and 1900 B.C. The ruins of a circular plaza, hidden under other architecture is one of the oldest structures ever found in the Americas. 6. Vilcabamba Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro arrived in northern Peru in 1531 and immediately began claiming territory on behalf of both himself and Spain. But the Inca Empire was already there when he arrived with his 180 men and 30 horses, and although Pizarro eventually seized control over the civilization, it did not back down without a fight. 5. Disproportionate Extinction The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) occurred millions of years ago with the emergence of the Panama isthmus, which connected North and South America, resulting in the large-scale migration of mammals from North to South, but not so much the other way around. 4. The San José The Spanish galleon the San Jose was loaded with treasure when it departed from Panama. Every year, the ship would leave South America, packed to the brim with precious metals and gems from the colonies including Peru and Colombia and set sail to Spain under guard by a fleet of warships. 3. Ancient Hallucinogens A 2019 archaeological study details the discovery of what’s thought to be the oldest-known evidence of human consumption of ayahuasca, a plant-based drug from the Amazon basin that produces strong hallucinations. 2. Huge Cat Geoglyph While performing maintenance at the world-famous Nazca Lines in southern Peru, archaeologists discovered the faded image of a cat etched into a hillside. The carving marks the latest discovery among the massive depictions of plants, animals, and other objects that have been found among the Nazca Lines. 1. Las Llamas Sacrifice In 2018, archaeologists working in northern Peru announced the 2011 discovery of what could be the world’s largest single example of child sacrifice. The 140 children at the site, called Las Llamas, were between nine and 14 years old when they were killed and buried in a ceremony around 550 years ago. On the same day, around 200 young llamas were also sacrificed. #mysteriousdiscoveries #amazingdiscoveries #strangefinds #originsexplained