So advanced were their artifacts that, for years after their discovery in the late 1920s, most archaeologists believed the people had evolved from the Neanderthals whose remains were found in neighboring caves. (discovermagazine.com)
Although these methods showed that burning had occurred, the evidence is simply too sparse to convince most archaeologists that humans — not wildfires or lightning — were responsible. (discovermagazine.com)
On this week's show: Most archaeologists think the first Americans arrived by boat. (sciencemag.org)