"There were millions of indigenous people here before Europeans showed up and there had been for many thousands of years." Weitzel also noted that the Natchez Trace itself was an ancient Native ...

An unprecedented number of burrfish remains were found at the Mound Key archaeological site in Florida, indicating that ancient Native Americans used the fish's poison. However, it's unclear what ...

“It’s the closest we have ever gotten to a Native American ancestor outside the Americas,” Willerslev tells Science. The woman, called Kolyma1, is not part of the group that founded the Native ...

But a 2017 analysis of ancient remains from five Rapanui individuals found no genetic evidence of Native American ancestry. In a study published today (July 8) in Nature, researchers analyzed the ...

Brian Gibbs was an environmental educator at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. His job was among those nixed by the ...

But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved remains of ancient people ... generations of subsequent Native Americans, and eventually European ...

It’s part of an ancient tradition, and more - for some Native American tribes ... group in America because of the fact that our native people have always wanted to fulfill that warrior path ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

Redwood City’s vast Elco Yards development is the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, and for at least a year, an undisclosed number of skeletal remains – some perhaps hundreds o ...

Researchers think Native Americans ... A few ancient artifacts have been discovered there over the years by archaeologists. “The bottom line is we want to reconnect the mounds to people ...

"There were millions of indigenous people here before Europeans showed ... Weitzel also noted that the Natchez Trace itself was an ancient Native American road, making the journey through these ...