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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Johanna Read covers international travel and responsible tourism. Do you like to see unusual places when you travel? Well, add ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
Broken walls and toppled stones reveal the calamity that struck Zapatero, an ancient community in what’s now northern Chile, about 4,000 years ago. The people who lived along the coast of the Atacama ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: Chile History Explained, From Origins to 2026
Chile history begins with indigenous peoples, above all the Mapuche, who resisted Spanish conquest for more than three centuries. Spain founded Santiago in 1541, and Chile proclaimed its independence ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: Long-term history of violence in hunter-gatherer societies uncovered in the Atacama Desert
Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a study published September 20, 2023 in the open ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: The Most Martian Desert On Earth: The Atacama Desert In Northern Chile
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brianna Randall writes about the intersection of travel and science. The Valle de la Muerte (Death Valley) near San Pedro de ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: A trip through Chile's Atacama desert, the driest place in the world
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: 9-million-year-old capybara tooth reveals wetter past of Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert is a landscape where water is measured in millimetres, not rivers. Today, parts of this vast Chilean desert receive almost no rain, making the discovery of an animal that depended ...
News Chile » Atacama » History: Capybara Tooth Discovery Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Atacama Desert's Past
A groundbreaking discovery of a nine-million-year-old capybara tooth fossil in Chile's Atacama Desert is forcing scientists to rethink the region's ancient climate history, suggesting it was once a ...