Articles for tag: ancient human species, anthropological mysteries, Channel Islands dwarfs, early human history, North American archaeology

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California’s “Channel Islands Dwarfs”: The Lost Human Species of America?

Suhail Ahmed

  Rumors travel fast across water, and few places inspire wilder speculation than the wind-scoured Channel Islands off Southern California. For years, whispers have circulated about tiny people – dwarfs – once living here, the American echo of the Indonesian “hobbits.” The mystery is potent because the islands truly did breed smallness: mammoths shrank to ...

New Evidence Suggests These Mounds Are Older Than the Pyramids

New Evidence Suggests These Mounds Are Older Than the Pyramids

Gargi Chakravorty

Scattered across North America’s landscape like ancient secrets waiting to be uncovered, thousands of mysterious earthen mounds rise from the ground, their origins shrouded in mystery and their age far more remarkable than most people realize. For decades, archaeologists have been pushing back the timeline of these incredible structures, discovering that some predate the famous ...