native americans

Dr Robert Lee, University lecturer in American History, has been awarded a George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his...

New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America was maintained for millennia before mixing...

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called “Taíno”, the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European...

Direct genetic traces of the earliest Native Americans have been identified for the first time in a new study. The genetic evidence suggests that...

The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and violence...

A PhD student’s research at Cambridge’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science has revealed how racist ideas and images circulated between...

The genome of a child who died some 12,600 years ago in Montana – the oldest known human remains from North America – has been sequenced for the first...