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Genome analysis pins down arrival and spread of first Americans: Comparing current and ancient genomes shows Siberian migration no earlier than 23,000 years ago — ScienceDaily
This is an artist’s representation of the ice age landscape that early Native Americans would have encountered.Credit: Artwork by Sussi BechThe original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north — perhaps for thousands […]
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Video: Torn – Recovering California’s Stolen Cultural Heritage | Watch ViewFinder Online | KVIE Public Television Video
Torn – Recovering California’s Stolen Cultural Heritage+ADD Aired: 08/20/2014 27:10 Rating: NRIn the desolate Owens Valley, looters have been stealing or destroying ancient artifacts, including petroglyphs thousands of years old. Join archeologists, Native American tribal members, and federal land officials as they try to recover these priceless pieces of the past, while restoring and protecting […]
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First inhabitants of Arctic not related to the Inuit : Archaeology News from Past Horizons
First inhabitants of Arctic not related to the InuitArticle created on Friday, August 29, 2014PrintShare on Facebook0Tweet about this on Twitter0Share on LinkedIn0Share on Reddit0Share on StumbleUpon0Share on Google+0Email this to someoneWe know people have lived in the New World Arctic for about 5,000 years. Archaeological evidence clearly shows that a variety of cultures survived […]
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Evidence of Hobbling, Torture Discovered at Ancient Massacre Site in Colorado | Western Digs
he site of a gruesome massacre some 1,200 years ago in southwestern Colorado is yielding new evidence of the severity, and the grisly intensity, of the violence that took place there. First excavated in 2005 near the town of Durango, the site known as Sacred Ridge was in some ways a typical early Pueblo settlement, […]
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Grisly Mass Grave in Utah Cave Is Evidence of ‘Prehistoric Warfare,’ Study Says | Western Digs
Nearly a hundred skeletons buried in a cave in southeast Utah offer grisly evidence that ancient Americans waged war on each other as much as 2,000 years ago, according to new research.Dozens of bodies, dating from the first century CE, bear clear signs of hand-to-hand combat: skulls crushed as if by cudgels; limbs broken at […]
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Recapping the Recapture Canyon ATV protest | Friends of Cedar Mesa
Posted on May 13, 2014 A first hand report by Executive Director, Josh Ewing Frustrated with years of delay from the BLM in deciding the fate of a proposed ATV trail in Recapture Canyon, protestors rode their machines into the Canyon on Saturday, May 10th. Because of recent events where BLM employees had been threatened […]
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Photo of the day: Doors, Chaco Culture National Historic Park
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America’s only Clovis skeleton genome offers clues to Native American ancestry (Update)
Nearly 13,000 years ago, a baby boy died in what is Montana today. Mourners stained his tiny body with red ochre and entombed him with artefacts that had likely been in his family for generations. After lying undisturbed for millennia, the infant’s body was dug up by accident at a construction site in 1968—the oldest […]
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What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? | Science/AAAS | News
Until about 11,000 years ago, mammoths, giant beavers, and other massive mammals roamed North America. Many researchers have blamed their demise on incoming Paleoindians, the first Americans, who allegedly hunted them to extinction. But a new study fingers climate and environmental changes instead. The findings could have implications for conservation strategies, including controversial proposals for […]
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Americas’ Natives Have European Roots – Scientific American
The 24,000-year-old remains of a young boy from the Siberian village of Mal’ta have added a new root to the family tree of indigenous Americans. While some of the New World’s native ancestry clearly traces back to east Asia, the Mal’ta boy’s genome — the oldest known of any modern human — shows that up […]
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Photo of the Day: Great Kiva, Chimney Rock National Monument, Colorado
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Photo of the Day: Hilltop Ruin, Grand Canyon National Park
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Photo of the Day: Moab Rock Art
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Photo of the Day: Grand Gulch Primitive Area, UT
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Prehistoric humans not wiped out by comet, say researchers
Comet explosions did not end the prehistoric human culture, known as Clovis, in North America 13,000 years ago, according to research published in the journal Geophysical Monograph Series. Researchers from Royal Holloway university, together with Sandia National Laboratories and 13 other universities across the United States and Europe, have found evidence which rebuts the belief […]