Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and ...

Part I: Issues and methods -- Prologomenal thinking: some possibilities and limits of comparative desire / Teresa Toulouse -- First peoples: an introduction to early native american studies / Joanna ...