All Articles Tagged As: american indians

Rewriting Greenland's immigration history (5/30/2008)

The first immigrants in Greenland were not Indians from the North American continent or Canadian Inuit as previously suggested ...> Full Article

Getting to the Roots of Sunflower Cultivation (5/23/2008)

Genetic information from ancient stocks could help address effects of global warming on valuable food crop ...> Full Article

The first humans went to America earlier than was thought (4/16/2008)

With the aid of DNA analysis of 14,500-year-old feces, researchers have now been able to show that American Indians were present in America earlier than has long been thought ...> Full Article

Archaeologist find pre-Clovis human DNA (4/4/2008)

Human DNA from dried excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia ...> Full Article

Humans inhabited New World's doorstep for 20,000 years (2/14/2008)

The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait. ...> Full Article

Gene study adds weight to theory that native people of the Americas arrived in a single main migration across the Bering Strait (11/28/2007)

Researchers analyze 678 genetic markers in 29 native populations ...> Full Article

Archaeology Team Discovers First Ancient Manioc Fields In Americas (8/24/2007)

A University of Colorado at Boulder team excavating an ancient Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has discovered an ancient field of manioc, the first evidence for cultivation of the calorie-rich tuber in the New World. ...> Full Article

Student's Discovery Could Help Rewrite Prehistory (8/13/2007)

A little boy's natural curiosity may have turned up archeological evidence that the earliest Native Americans came from Europe, not Asia. ...> Full Article

U.S.-Cuban Dig Seeks Insight Into People Columbus Encountered (8/6/2007)

Researchers in an ongoing U.S.-Cuban archaeological expedition, co-led by The University of Alabama, are attempting to learn more about the native people Christopher Columbus encountered on his first voyage to the New World. ...> Full Article

Anthropologist Researches Monacan Tribe (7/1/2007)

Karenne Wood carries with her a responsibility that most anthropologists never consider. As a Monacan Indian, she brings her people along with her wherever she goes. This includes into the halls of academia, which, when it comes to cultural research, has not always been kind to Native Americans. ...> Full Article

Students Dig Into Iroquois Culture (6/30/2007)

The hot, dirty and exacting conditions of fieldwork can be a love-it-or-hate-it proposition for archaeologists and anthropologists. ...> Full Article