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Horses and Native Americans: Rewriting The Timeline

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Credit: Pat Doak) Challenging the Traditional Narrative Previously, European accounts from the 1700s and 1800s suggested that horses spread into North America in significant numbers only after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, when Pueblo people temporarily expelled Spanish settlers from New Mexico. 1 Taylor, W. Librado, P., Shield Chief Gover, C.,

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Excavating the Coexistence of Neanderthals and Modern Humans

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Both positions allow for the occasional interbreeding that has resulted in a little bit of Neanderthal being present in many of us, especially those of European and East Asian ancestry. However, there are many challenges to exploring this distant time.

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The Neolithic Decline: The Role of Ancient Plague in Northern Europe's Population Collapse

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The Archaeological Evidence The theory of the Neolithic decline originated from archaeological evidence showing large-scale abandonment of settlements. Colors indicate genetic ancestry, and black crosses designate individuals with the plague.Credit: Seersholm et al., Plague spread in Neolithic Scandinavia.