Scott Armstrong Elias

The look of love? Human meets Neanderthal. DrMikeBaxter/wikimedia

June 22, 2015

Jaw‑bone discovery reveals more about secret sex lives of Neanderthals and early humans

Scott Armstrong Elias, Royal Holloway, University of London

The great grandfather of one of Europe’s earliest modern humans had sex with Neanderthals.

Naia, which means water nymph in Greek, in her watery grave. Daniel Riordan Araujo

May 16, 2014

12,000‑year‑old skeleton in a Mexican cave helps trace the first Americans

Scott Armstrong Elias, Royal Holloway, University of London

The discovery of a nearly complete fossil skeleton of a teenage girl in the Hoyo Negro submerged cave system in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula provides new insight into the first people to inhabit the Americas…

An Inupiat Eskimo family from Alaska in 1929, whose ancestors would have crossed Beringia thousands of years previously. Edward Curtis

February 28, 2014

First Americans lived on land bridge for thousands of years, genetics study suggests

Scott Armstrong Elias, Royal Holloway, University of London

The theory that the Americas were populated by humans crossing from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge was first proposed as far back as 1590, and has been generally accepted since the 1930s. But genetic…

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