Modern Inuit peoples all descend from populations that lived in the North Slope region of Alaska. This finding, revealed in DNA analysis of ancient and contemporary cultures, could answer questions ...

This photos shows Qajaa, a grass-covered deep-frozen midden in West Greenland with remains from Early Paleo-Eskimo cultures. Ancient human DNA is shedding light on the peopling of the Arctic region of ...

AS the result of a proposal made by Mr. Wm. John Cooper, Commissioner for Education of the United States, at a meeting of the Council for Education in 1929, and with the financial assistance of the ...

The harsh, frigid New World Arctic was the last part of the Americas to be populated by modern humans. But who the first Eskimos were and when they arrived have been hotly debated by scientists. In an ...