A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age. When you purchase through ...

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The remains of hunter-gatherers excavated in the Altiplano region of Colombia were part of a ...

The first people to colonize the Americas migrated from modern-day Russia about 20,000-30,000 years ago, a new study has found. Published on May 15 in the journal Science, the study suggests the ...

Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing of this replacement, ...

Krystal Tsosie grew up playing in the wide expanse of the Navajo Nation, scrambling up sandstone rocks and hiking in canyons in Northern Arizona. But after her father started working as a power plant ...