Who Discovered America?

We thought we knew who first set foot in the Americas, but new evidence means the question of our last great migration is wide open again

Early humans may have lived on the North American continent 130,000 years ago, more than 100,000 years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a new study.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories - Wikipedia Several Olmec colossal heads have features that some diffusionists link to African contact.

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories - Wikipedia A jade Olmec mask. Gordon Ekholm, who was an eminent archaeologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, suggested that the Olmec art style might have originated in Bronze Age China

First humans arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than believed

The Clovis People, a group of mastodon hunters distinguished by their unique spear points, likely populated North America after others had already arrived, finds a new study.

The ancestors of Native Americans may have been landlocked in a region around the Bering Strait for 10,000 years before populating the Americas, a new paper argues.

Prince Madoc of Wales and his Discovery of America by Landing on the Shores of Mobile Bay

The discovery of the Americas by Prince Madog who landed in Alabama in 1170.

Seal hunters may have washed up on the shores of North America's east coast 13,500 years ago.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archeologists and historians have long known that it wasn’t really Christopher Columbus who discovered America. Native Americans had been living all over North, Central and South America long before he arrived. And Native Americans came from Asia across the frozen-over Bering Sea in the west. But now, it appears Europeans might have been first to arrive on the scene after all. Stone tools found recently in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia in the eastern United States, all…

The rich ecosystem may have provided a logical path for humans to migrate from Asia thousands of years ago.

A mastodon skull and an ancient knife found in the Chesapeake Bay suggests that the Americas may have been colonized earlier than previously thought.