Link: Ancient genome brings light to Taíno ancestry
Lizzie Wade has a news story in Science that provides a review of a new paper by Hannes Schroeder and colleagues, who have sequenced the genome of 1000-year-...
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A look at the history of Mormon archaeology in Mexico
Science magazine this week has a feature article by Lizzie Wade, looking at some of the history of archaeological research in Mexico supported by the Church ...
Link: Implications of an 11,500-year-old genome from an infant skeleton from Alaska
A paper in Nature this week presents analysis of the ancient genome of an infant skeleton from Alaska, some 11,500 years old: “Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan g...
Did humans approach the southern tip of South America more than 18,000 years ago?
Tom Dillehay has for many years investigated the archaeological remains at Monte Verde, Chile. These provide some of the earliest evidence of human habitatio...
Coming: ‘First Peoples’ on PBS
This month, PBS in the United States will be premiering a new five-part series on the origins and spread of modern humans around the world, called First Peop...