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Archaeologists discover the oldest dwelling in the Western Hemisphere at a 13,800-year-old site in AlaskaArchaeologists have discovered an ancient base camp in Alaska that has evidence of the oldest dwelling and possibly the earliest domesticated dogs in the Americas.
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DNA from centuries-old skeletons buried in Montreal reveals no genetic mixing between Indigenous people and French colonistsA study of DNA from early colonial-era skeletons in a Montreal cemetery has revealed that none of them had any Indigenous ancestry.
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Ancient Indigenous people in New Mexico lived through extreme climate change 23,000 years ago, study suggestsResearchers have revealed the climate that some of the first people in North America experienced around 23,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum.
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7 extraordinary Indigenous sites in the US, from Chaco Canyon to Chimney RockCountdown The Native Americans built impressive sites across what is now the U.S., including Walnut Canyon and Cahokia.
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Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before ColumbusAstonishing Artifacts This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.
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'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrivedArchaeologists and geographers have been trying to estimate the pre-1492 population of the Americas for decades. But it's difficult.
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Urn with jaguars and skulls: A 1,400-year-old burial container depicting a deceased ruler's arrival to the Maya underworldAstonishing Artifacts This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.
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The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggestsThe first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but "there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset," a new study reports.
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'It's a portrait of their actual ancestor': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendantsYou can now see a facial reconstruction — and the particular hairstyle — of a man who lived more than 3,000 years ago in what is now Ecuador.
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