Incredible New Evidence for Peopling of the Americas 130,000 Years Ago
It is pretty well agreed that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa about 100,000 years ago and traveled across Asia about 60,000 …
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14,000-year-old Canadian Village is One of the Oldest North American Settlements
Excavations on Triquet Island, about 500 kilometres northwest of Victoria, Canada, have yield extremely rare artifacts, like an atlatl, compound …
Megafloods and the Collapse of Cahokia
My first understanding of Cahokia and pre-Columbian cities of the Americas came from the book 1491. Between 1050 and 1200 …
Lagunita and Tamchén, Two Newly Discovered Mayan Sites
Two large Maya sites in the Yucatana have been (re) discovered by Ivan Šprajc from the Research Centre of the …
Were The Americas Settled Twice?
A team of paleoanthropologists report in PLoS One analyzed the skulls of several dozen 11,000 year old Paleoamericans and compared …
Inuk’s Ancestry: The 4,000 Year-Old Paleo-Eskimo Genome
Hi all, this is Kambiz. I’m resurfacing to share with you a new Peopling of the America’s research that peeked …
Discrepancy Between Cranial & mtDNA Data Of Early Americans Or Sample Size?
There’s an interesting discussion brewing about on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog about the ancestral discord between the genetics and craniometric traits …
More Older, Maybe Even The Earliest, Dates For The Occupation Of South America
Dienekes briefly introduced a new paper which attempted to reassess the age of the earliest human settlements in southern Chile …
Peopling Of The Americas: Eva de Naharon, A 13,600 Year Old Skeleton Found Near Tulum, Mexico
National Geographic News is running some press about the oldest skeleton found in the Americas, Eva de Naharon, at 13,600 …
On Mexican Toloquilla Footprints and the “Peopling of the Americas”
This post is intended as a follow-up to Kambiz’s review of the new dates for Toloquilla footprints. Frankly, it’s been …
