In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s voyage marked the beginning of sustained European contact with the Americas. Over the next century, Spanish expeditions established settlements, claimed territories, ...

A new study led by archaeologists, ecologists, and paleoclimatologists at Harvard and elsewhere overturns long-held beliefs about the role humans played in shaping the American landscape before and ...

Lund University archaeologists have revealed details of late medieval artillery from the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden. The shipwreck is the only known example of its kind ...

In 1492, the discovery of the Americas initiated European colonialism, resulting in the continent's dominance over much of ...

Rates of soil erosion and alluvium accumulation in North America accelerated 10-fold after Europeans colonized the continent, according to new research carried out by scientists from China, Belgium ...

Although James Cook's 18th century expeditions into the South Pacific Ocean are considered historical feats, Spanish voyages of discovery in this region preceded them. It is well-known that the ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that 2.22 million Indigenous Australians lived on the continent before European colonization, far more than previously believed. Researchers estimate that 93% of this ...

This figure from the paper shows the distribution of wildlife values across 33 countries in Europe and the Americas from 2021-2023. Percent of mutualism-oriented (a) and domination-oriented (b) ...

Humans with Asian origins played a larger role than those from Africa in colonizing Europe millions of years ago, reports a paper published in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM—BBC reports that a team of scientists from University College London have determined that European colonization of the New World caused the death of so many indigenous people ...

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native ...

The year 2020 was filled with polarizing events — a pandemic, fervent protests from Belarus to Hong Kong to Venezuela, Black Lives Matter, the U.S. elections, conflict in the Central African Republic ...