First Native American Population Was Just Around 250 People
No one knows exactly the population of Native Americans when contact with Europeans occured. There are some estimates claiming there …
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Humans Walked Along the Beaches of British Columbia 13,000 Years Ago
Off the shore of Calvert Island in B.C., Duncan McLaren of the University of Victoria & Hakai Institute and team discovered …
Ancient DNA Reveal the Foundation Event of the Peopling of the Americas
At a site known today as the Upward Sun River, near the Tanana River Valley in Central Alaska, Ben Potter of the …
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 …
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 …
