A new paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances adds support to a model for how the first peoples entered North America. The paper reports the finding of two new types of spear ...

Exactly how and when the peopling of the Americas took place has long been one of the hottest debates in science. For every new paper that emerges with evidence of an interior or coastal route, it ...

A ball of hair tangled around a whalebone comb was preserved in the arctic permafrost for nearly 4,000 years. Found in the 1980s and stored in a Denmark museum, it was only in 2010 that evolutionary ...

At one time or another most of us wonder where we came from, where our parents or grandparents and their parents came from. Did our ancestors come from Europe or Asia? As curious as we are about our ...

Writing in Nature, Ardelean et al. 1 and Becerra-Valdivia and Higham 2 report evidence that the initial human settlement of the American continent happened earlier than is widely accepted, and some of ...

Compared to the first peopling of Polynesia, the settlement of the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, which happened around 3,500 years ago, has received little attention. Researchers have now ...

How did people first get to America? The route by which people first entered the Americas from Asia – and when it happened – has generated decades of research. Now, a new study concludes that both an ...