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New research published this week by University of New Mexico archaeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical for the studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food. According to the...

The first high quality ancient DNA data from Central and South America—49 individuals some as old as 11,000 years—has revealed a major and previously unknown exchanges between populations. Unprecedented details about the ancestry of the people of...