A 2,700-year-old burial complex in central China has yielded the sacrificial remains of humans and animals. Such sacrifices were often made to bless houses, according to David Sena of the University of Texas at Austin. In Canada, the Curve Lake First Nation will rebury some 2,000-year-old human bones that were discovered beneath a parking lot […]

A comparison of 11,000-year-old human skeletons and more recent bones suggests that two distinct groups from Asia settled in the New World. The differences between the skeletal remains “are so large that it is highly improbable that the earliest inhabitants of the New World were the direct ancestors of recent Native American populations,” according to […]