Fort Ancient culture was a mound building culture and heavily reliant on maize agriculture, but were they “Mississippian” (People of the Morning Star) or a separate mound building culture descended from Hopewell (People of the Lakes)? We think they came directly out of Hopewell, but interacted with Mississippian peoples. What do you think?
Such tiny bones for such an amazing discovery!
Our oldest #evolutionary ancestor was no bigger than a shrew and built for climbing through trees. The bones of this tiny creature were found in Montana at a place called Purgatory Hill, therefore this early primate is named Purgatorius, and dates to 65 million years ago.
Read more at: 
http://westerndigs.org/bones-discovered-in-montana-are-of-the-worlds-earliest-primate-study-finds/
From an anthropological point of view, these kinds of discussions are always interesting. Here’s the question we ask: How is “Hispanic” defined? Is it based upon the number of distinctly Hispanic genes in a person’s genome? Is it based on culture? If you were raised in Spain, Mexico, or South America and are fluent in the language are you Hispanic? A significant amount of Texas culture is Hispanic. That’s just a fact. Around the year 1836 most Americans and many Mexicans in Texas labeled themselves as Texicans. So…in today’s world, what is Hispanic?
What do you think?
The Pleistocene Ice Age was hard on human beings. Human DNA changed to adapt to the climate stresses, or it ceased to exist. This is a great article!
Today the $2.99 E-BOOK of PEOPLE OF THE WOLF hit #1 on two Amazon bestseller lists and #15 at Barnes and Noble. Thanks to everyone. We hope you enjoy the book.
Happiest of holidays to you!
