Anthropology

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Hublin, J.-J. et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature 581, 299–302 (2020). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  ...

Tracing North America’s First Migrants via the Sea Ice Highway

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Dr. Sarah Adams

New findings suggest early humans arrived in North America earlier than 13,000 years ago, possibly using a “sea ice highway” along the ...

Tracing Human Migration and Colonization in the Americas Through Lice

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Contact between Europeans and Native Americans is recorded in the DNA of head lice. Credit: Vincent Smith, Natural History Museum, London, CC-BY ...

Women Were Prehistoric Hunters, Not Just Gatherers

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Dr. Sarah Adams

University of Delaware anthropology professor Sarah Lacy has proposed a new theory that challenges the familiar story that labor roles during ancient ...