Leprosy is one of the oldest human diseases and originated in Eurasia or Africa. A new study has found a different species of leprosy-causing bacteria existed in the Americas before European ...
A form of leprosy affected people in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans, contrary to popular belief. “The narrative around leprosy has been always been that it’s this awful disease that ...
The impact of 500 years of colonization on the Abenaki peoples of the Northeast is the topic of a free lecture offered by the ...
Authors challenge belief that Adirondacks were uninhabited before European colonization. Book talk Nov. 5, 6 p.m. at Historic ...
Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...