Neolithic stone circles, alignments, and corbelled roof tombs have been found in the Syrian Desert. “We’ve found something that’s never been found in the Middle East before,” said Robert Mason of the Royal Ontario Museum. Did the practice of building such stone landscapes have spread to Europe along with farming? “It’s such an important hypothesis […]

 Two anthropologists from the University of Utah speculate that people could have traveled to the Americas via Canada’s High Arctic islands and the Northwest Passage 25,000 years ago. “As neither archaeological nor genetic data have yet been able to unequivocally resolve many of the long-standing questions regarding American colonization, the generation of new models and […]