First Dogs in the Americas Arrived from Siberia, Disappeared after European Contact

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First Dogs in the Americas Arrived from Siberia, Disappeared after European Contact

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A study reported in the journal Science offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, but likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, […]

Native Americans Call For Rethink of Bering Strait Theory

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Native Americans Call For Rethink of Bering Strait Theory

It’s one of the most contentious debates in anthropology today: Where did America’s first peoples come from — and when? The general scientific consensus is that a single wave of people crossed a long-vanished land bridge from Siberia into Alaska around 13,000 years ago. But some Native Americans are irked by the theory, which they […]