The analysis of lithic tool technologies made a connection with coastal routes that allowed the early inhabitants to migrate ...
Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Arizona have analyzed fossilized footprints found at ...
Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have now confirmed that humans roamed North America 23,000 years ago. The ...
Ancient seas left an expanse of rolling gypsum dunes known as White Sands in New Mexico, and within this surreal landscape lies evidence that humans have roamed the Americas for at least 20,000 years.
The Native Americans of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, achieved something that seems impossible today. They transported a five-ton tree more than 180 kilo ...
Finding an ancient spearhead is already kind of amazing. But what if that arrowhead is more than 16,000 years old and the oldest record of human presence in North America? That’s what happened to a ...
New research has thrown a spanner in the works for giraffe conservation, after analyzing the genetics of giraffes kept in ...
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. A central plot point in the human story is our species’ ...