Since the 1930s, many archeologists have thought that the Clovis culture (prehistoric Paleo-Indian) was the first group of people to inhabit the Americas, where it expanded rapidly roughly 12,800 to ...

The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found ...

In mid-October 2011 the journal Science published a reexamination of a mastodon bone originally excavated in the late 1970s at the Manis site in northwestern Washington State. Embedded in the bone, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Geneticist. Anthropologist. Science writer. For decades, the so-called “Clovis-First” model dominated archaeological ways of ...

For more than a decade, evidence has been piling up that humans colonized the Americas thousands of years before the Clovis people. The Clovis, who are the early ancestors of today’s Native Americans, ...

For many years, scientists have thought the first Americans arrived from Asia 13,000 years ago, during the last ice age, probably by way of the Bering Strait. They were known as the Clovis people, ...

Experiments were undertaken to evaluate a natural versus cultural origin for a set of modified pebbles and cobbles found in pre-Clovis-age contexts at the Big Eddy site (23CE426) in southwest Missouri ...

A 15,000-year-old projectile may provide indirect evidence for how and when people first arrived in the Americas.Credit: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University Thousands of ...

DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides ...