Putting humans into their environmental contexts
What if you had access to an online research tool that provided a vast knowledge base about humans and their historical relationships with their physical landscapes? » More …
What if you had access to an online research tool that provided a vast knowledge base about humans and their historical relationships with their physical landscapes? » More …
Researchers from Alaska and Washington state have found the earliest known evidence that Ice Age humans in North America used salmon as a food source, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. » More …
First came the science, with researchers explaining how they analyzed Kennewick Man’s DNA and concluded that the 9,000-year-old skeleton from Eastern Washington is undoubtedly Native American. » More …
In 1852, a Hawaiian native operated a one-man cooper’s shop at Fort Vancouver, assembling wooden barrels for the Hudson’s Bay Company’s global trading empire. » More …
A new study in PLOS ONE shows for the first time that epigenetic marks on DNA can be detected in a large number of ancient human remains. This could improve understanding about the effects of famine and disease in the ancient world. » More …