A recent genetic study of the remains of fifteen individuals purported to be from the island of Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—has revealed that the inhabitants of the island had pre-colonial contact with the Peoples of South America, and also has dispelled a long-standing idea that the Rapanui had causedread more
A new archaeological find in New Mexico has added to a growing body of evidence that modern humans have been present in the Americas for much longer than the conventionally-accepted duration of 13,000 years, with the discovery of a set of 23,000-year-old footprints made by children playing in the tracks ofread more
A new archaeological discovery in a cave in Mexico is once again pushing back the timeline of human presence in the Americas, this time by at least 15,000 years earlier than the generally-accepted date of roughly 13,000 years ago. In addition to earlier finds that also point to an earlierread more
An analysis of 29 prehistoric footprints found on the west coast of Canada have revealed that they are 13,000 years old, making them the oldest known footprints in North America. While older archeological remains have been uncovered elsewhere on the continent, this find adds to the body of evidence that modern humans were present on North America’s west coast well before the end of the last Ice Age, in this case over 2,500 years before the current geological era, the Holocene, began.
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