americas, early humans, new discoveries, projectile points
Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of how early humans crafted and used stone weapons. The 13 full and fragmentary projectile points, razor-sharp and ranging from about half an inch to 2 ...
The arrival of humans in the Americas may predate the peak of the last ice age, new research shows. Humans may have reached the Americas over 30,000 years ago, new research from international teams of scientists shows — a period 15,000 years earlier than previously thought. However, the human impact on now-extinct large mammals (megafauna) ...
Scientists have sequenced 15 ancient DNA genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia and were able to track the movements of the first humans as they spread across the Americas at “astonishing” speed during the last Ice Age, and also how these Ice Age tribes interacted with each other in the following millennia. The results have ...