Far from “discovering the New World,” Europeans came to the Western Hemisphere long after complex societies had already risen, fallen, persisted, and transformed in the Americas. The Field Museum’s collections from Middle and South America have allowed anthropologists to trace the origins and courses of these remarkable civilizations from prehistory to the present.
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