The fastest land animal in North America is the American pronghorn, and previously, researchers thought it evolved its speed ...

Most people think of bears as rare forest animals, but ancient North America had something much worse. This massive predator once roamed the continent during the Ice Age. Its size, strength, and ...

Migration into the Americas is not about a single “path,” but timing can still rule routes in or out. The Holzman evidence supports the idea of a southward movement of ancestral Clovis-era populations ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso. NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Principles -- The Cordillera's foundations : ...

ANTH copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature Part 1. The archaeology of North America -- Archaeology of ...

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Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people — but not ...

A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a period of substantial habitat change. During the ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...