From Alaska and Canada in the north to Patagonia in the south, the 10-part documentary series focuses on food-gathering mamas, adorable babies and stunning cinematography. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

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Tens of thousands of years ago, two gigantic ice sheets smothered the northernmost parts of what has since been named North America. They towered more than two kilometers high and contained 1.5 times ...

Figure 1: South Americans share ancestry with Australasian populations that is not seen in Mesoamericans or North Americans. The geographic distribution of the shared genetic signal between South ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, emerged in Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago. From there modern humans followed in the steps of other kinds of humans—Homo erectus, Neandertals, Denisovans, and ...

When the National Park Service’s Daniel Odess was invited in 2017 to work with an archaeological team at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, it was to help preserve fossilized mammoth trackways ...

Who were the first Americans and when and how did they get here? For decades archaeologists thought they knew the answers to these questions. Based on the available evidence, it seemed big game ...

For much of its length, the slow-moving Aucilla River in northern Florida flows underground, tunneling through bedrock limestone. But here and there it surfaces, and preserved in those inky ponds lie ...

President Trump has tightened the U.S. grip on the Americas by rewarding allies and punishing rivals. That has upended the region’s politics. By Jack Nicas Jack Nicas has been a lead correspondent ...