Ethical challenges of studying historical DNA that connects living people to enslaved and free African Americans at Catoctin Furnace, an early ironworks (18th–19th century)
Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery: Tatóok yík yées sháawat (Young lady in cave), living 3,000 years ago is in fact closest related to present-day Tlingit
The boom of fragile private art museums: economic elites are increasingly shaping the art we see, according to Professor Olav Velthuis
Early crop plants were more plastic and easily ‘tamed’: new perspectives on plant domestication are shown in a study published in PLoS ONE
A reconstruction of the prehistoric temperatures for some of the oldest archaeological sites in the Alaskan Tanana Valley, North America
Agriculture linked to changes in age-independent mortality in North America New study is first to tie patterns of age-independent human mortality to food…
Ancient Siberian genomes reveal genetic backflow from North America across the Bering Sea, according to a new study published in Current Biology
Oregon State archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas at the Cooper’s Ferry site along the Salmon River, Idaho
Who built the LSU campus mounds provides insight into these prehistoric treasures; recent papers have offered alternate interpretations of their age
Footprints found in New Mexico’s Lake Otero Basin and claimed as evidence of ice age humans in North America need better dating
