“The recent White Sands paper provides some evidence for a possible earlier expansion of humans.” For decades, scientists subscribed to the Clovis-first model of the peopling of the Americas, the idea ...

In 2007, while searching for signs of ancient human inhabitants of the Andes mountain range, more than 4,300 meters above sea level, Kurt Rademaker came across a field littered with chunks of obsidian ...

Many believe that this initial colonization event explains the peopling of the Americas. Over the next 11 millennia, descendants from this initial founding population evolved and were responsible ...