About 37,000 years ago, a mother mammoth and her calf met their end at the hands of human beings. Bones from the butchering site record how humans shaped pieces of their long bones into disposable ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled a fascinating chapter in human history, as stone tools provide compelling evidence of Paleolithic migrations across the Pacific into North America. This challenges the ...

Studying preserved footprints in New Mexico continues to provide insight into the first human movements in North America. A research team believes the footprints are more than 23,000 years old, ...

Beneath the white gypsum dunes of New Mexico, scientists have uncovered something remarkable—trails of footprints that challenge what we thought we knew about early humans in North America. These ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have now confirmed that humans roamed North America 23,000 years ago. The ...

Archaeologists at a Central Texas site have unearthed artifacts that the first humans arrived in North America roughly 2,500 years earlier than previously thought, raising questions about how they ...

Finding an ancient spearhead is already kind of amazing. But what if that arrowhead is more than 16,000 years old and the oldest record of human presence in North America? That’s what happened to a ...

New research in New Mexico uncovered mammoth bones with butchery marks dating back nearly 38,000 years—over 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. CT scans revealed deliberate cuts and fire use ...

Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that resulted in European settlers and their ...