Scientists first believed that the ancient human settlers of North America and South America were the Clovis people, who arrived in the Americas about 13,000 years ago.

Ancient Native American populations may have "back-migrated" into northeastern Asia, findings from a study published in the journal Current Biology indicate.. The paper sheds light on the history ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

Archaeologists excavating in Saskatchewan discovered an ancient settlement known as Âsowanânihk, estimated to be about 11,000 years old. The find is revolutionizing the understanding of the ...

Willerslev had organized previous investigations of ancient North American DNA histories in modern Native Americans, including one showing close genetic ties between Kennewick Man’s 8,500-year ...

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

The results suggest that European pups arriving with settlers in the 1500s completely replaced ancient North American dogs, such as the one buried at Koster 10,000 years ago.