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Credit: David Bustos/White Sands National Park. “For decades, archaeologists have debated when people first arrived in the Americas,” says study coauthor Vance Holliday, a professor in the University of Arizona School of Anthropology and department of geosciences. “Few archaeologists see reliable evidence for sites older than about 16,000 years. Some
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On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the cave wall, trudged through the stream itself, ducked through another keyhole and climbed more mud. Eventually
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Our species began migrating out of Africa around 100,000 years ago. Aside from Antarctica, the Americas were the last continents humans reached, with the early pioneers crossing the now-submerged Bering land bridge that once connected eastern Siberia to North America. At times throughout the Pleistocene ice age, which ended 10,000
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Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, providing the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas. Credit: Cornell University. Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into life over
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Credit: Arek Socha/Pixabay. Scientists screened ancient humans that lived during the last 45,000 years to find out how closely related their parents were. The results surprising: ancient humans rarely chose their cousins as mates. In a global dataset of 1,785 individuals only 54, that is, about three percent, show the
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The demon can be spotted at the bottom of the image, horns and face to the left and legs to the right. Credit: Olaf M. Teßmer/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum. A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq depicts the demon that the ancient Assyrians thought caused epilepsy. It’s a
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Credit: David Bustos/White Sands National Park. “For decades, archaeologists have debated when people first arrived in the Americas,” says study coauthor Vance Holliday, a professor
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On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a
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Our species began migrating out of Africa around 100,000 years ago. Aside from Antarctica, the Americas were the last continents humans reached, with the early
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Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, providing the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas. Credit: Cornell University. Footprints found
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Credit: Arek Socha/Pixabay. Scientists screened ancient humans that lived during the last 45,000 years to find out how closely related their parents were. The results
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The demon can be spotted at the bottom of the image, horns and face to the left and legs to the right. Credit: Olaf M.
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