America’s Native Population Arises From A Single Wave Of Asian Migration – Dental Anthropologists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that people took as they populated the world. The last major continental migration event took place about 16,000 years ago, when humans first moved into North and South […]
Head Lice Evolution Sheds Light On Human Migration And Colonization In The Americas
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Marina Ascunce, currently at the USDA-ARS, and colleagues, report these findings in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Credit: Adobe Stock – Gorodenkoff The human louse is a wingless, blood-sucking parasite that lives its entire life on its host. It is one of the oldest known parasites to live on humans, […]
Old Bone Links Lost American Parrot To Ancient Indigenous Bird Trade
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For centuries, Indigenous communities in the American Southwest imported colorful parrots from Mexico. But according to a study led by the University of Texas at Austin, some parrots may have been captured locally and not brought from afar. The research challenges the ᴀssumption that all parrot remains found in American […]
Oldest DNA From Domesticated American Horse Solves An Legendary Shipwreck Mystery
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken idenтιтy in the archaeological record has conspired to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the Virginia and Maryland coasts. Credit: Pixabay – Atlantios – Public Domain These seemingly unrelated threads were woven […]