South America

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/6/19
  

  Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension

  by Jordan Brasher

  How did an American debate about racism make its way to Brazil? 

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• SOURCE: Archaeology News Network
  11-20-13
  

  Humans hunted giant sloths in South America 30,000 years ago

  Giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, oversize armadillos, and other large mammals once roamed the Americas -- and humans hunted them.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  11-19-13
  

  New clues about human sacrifices at ancient Peruvian temple

  Human-sacrifice rituals at an ancient Moche temple in Peru likely featured the killing of war captives from distant valleys.