Fossilized Feces Points to Earlier Human Arrival in North America »

Who would have thought a load of radiocarboned feces found in central Oregon would be key to laying a foundation of when humans first arrived in North America?
But it was indeed feces, of the fossilized variety, that leads to new evidence that North American’s arrived at least some 14,300 years ago—dispelling the common [...]

Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Thought? »

The common belief is that the first people to America arrived some 13,500 years ago. A new theory led by anthropologists suggests otherwise. How much earlier? Perhaps 1,000-2,000 years.
Texas A&M University Professors Ted Goebel and Michael Waters and University of Utah Professor Dennis O’Rourke theorize migration through Alaska may have started as long [...]