#623 Peopling the Americas

Thousands of years ago, people crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Western Alaska and dispersed southward into what we now call the Americas. The story of exactly when that was, how they did it, and who they were has fascinated us for a long time as excavations have uncovered pieces of those stories. University of Kansas Associate Professor of Anthropology Jennifer Raff joins us to talk about her book "Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas", digging into the ways modern genetics is being used to help us understand the history of people dispersing across the Americas. Along the...

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#623 Peopling the Americas is an episode from Science for the People by Rachelle Saunders, Bethany Brookshire, Anika Hazra, & Marion Kilgour.

This episode is 01:00:00 long.

This episode was published on Apr 11, 2023.

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