Together these remnants may help explain an enduring mystery about the peopling of the Americas: If Native Americans are descendants of Asian trailblazers who migrated into the Americas toward the end ...

The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, a new study finds. This genetic relic could ...

The question of who first set foot in the Americas — and exactly when — is one of archaeology’s most fiercely debated puzzles. For decades, the textbook answer pointed to the Clovis people, big-game ...

Stone tools found in some of the earliest settlements in the Americas are challenging the prevailing theory of when the first migrations to the region happened. These tools, probably used as spear ...

Is the conventional chronology of human migration little more than a house of cards? Maybe. And there’s a strong wind (or at least a tantalizing breeze) blowing in from southern California, where ...