Earliest humans in the AmericasThe Americas were the last continents (except for Antarctica) colonized by Homo sapiens (that is, an…Politis, Gustavo G
humans first entered the Americas.They are believed to have crossed into North Americ a at a time when Siberi a and Alask a were connected by land.The new findings support the assumption that the first human migration into the Americas traveled down the Pacific coast instead of an inland ...
There has been much scientific debate about when humans first entered the Americas. They are believed to have crossed into North America at a time when Siberia and Alaska were connected by land.The new findings support the assumption that the first human migration into the Americas traveled down ...
In this study, we perform genomic analyses of two buried individuals excavated at Tell Qarassa North, a Neolithic site in the Village of Qarassa in Syria (Fig. 1a). While Tell Qarassa North is usually known as a prehistoric site18,19 (see also Supplementary Note S1), the two individuals...
Abu Hureyra lies at the easternmost sector of what is known as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) strewnfield, which encompasses about 30 other sites in the Americas, Europe, and parts of the Middle East. These sites hold evidence of massive burning, including a widespread carbon-rich...
When the study of human origins intensified in the 20th century, two main theories emerged to explain the archaeological and fossil record: one, known as the multi-regional hypothesis, suggested that a species of human ancestor dispersed throughout the globe, and modern humans evolved from this ...
"Focusing on the Andes and the Incan empire, we have known for decades from archeological artifacts and documents that they practiced what is called solar horizon astronomy, which uses the rising and setting positions of the sun in the horizon to determine the time of the year," said Ghezzi....
There has been much scientific debate about when humans first entered the Americas. They are believed to have crossed into North Americ a at a time when Siberia and Alask a were connected by land.The new findings support the assumption that the first human migration into the Americas traveled ...
Scientists said it's the oldest known ochre mine in the Americas. This evidence of ancient cave exploration and mining spans a period of many generations over about 2,000 years and dates from 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to the study. That was 8,000 years before the establishmen...