Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses have proven to be important tools in understanding human
population dispersals, settlement patterns, interactions between prehistoric populations, and …

This article presents a comprehensive genetic study focused on pre-Hispanic individuals
who inhabited the Aburrá Valley in Antioquia, Colombia, between the tenth and seventeenth …

Abstract The lower Illinois River valley (LIRV) received its most dense prehistoric occupation
during the Late Woodland (AD 300-1000) and Mississippian (AD 1000-1400) cultural …

Archaeologists have long debated whether rapid cultural change in the archaeological
record is due to in situ developments, migration of a new group into the region, or the spread …

Explore the latest research in anthropological genetics and understand the genome's role in
cultural and social development A Companion to Anthropological Genetics illustrates the …

The ritual drama of the death journey that Scioto Hopewell peoples enacted in Charnel
House C of Mound 25 in the Hopewell earthwork and that was reconstructed in the previous …

Physical anthropologists have used molecular characters of modern populations to explore
human variability and human prehistory for decades (see Relethford's and O'Rourke's …

Studies of skeletal variation form the basis of our understanding of our species' history and
diversity. This most commonly takes the form of comparative, betweenspecies studies aimed …

Koster Mounds is a prehistoric mortuary complex in Greene County, Illinois that was
designated a Late Woodland (1500-1000 BP) site by its excavator, Gregory Perino …

Tobacco is a plant that is native to the Americas, where it has grown before and throughout
human occupation of these continents. Tobacco is used for communication with and …