Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'

A new analysis of archaeological layers at Monte Verde in Chile suggests that people lived there 4,200 years ago, not 14,500 ...
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11,000-year-old volcanic ash layer could rewrite early human history in the Americas

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.
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An archaeological survey in China revealed a long-inhabited Neolithic settlement, from the earliest rice farming through later cultural phases

Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The Xiatang site in Zhejiang Province offers something far rarer. Excavations ...
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Landmark 8m dig at Sulawesi cave could reveal overlap between extinct humans and us

Could we – that is, Homo sapiens – and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the ...