Humans in the Americas

Native American Sciences Initiative

Annual scholarships are awarded to students who have demonstrated leadership, academic achievement, and an interest in a science career.

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The Social Science of Piracy

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Marc Levine takes an anthropological look at piracy and considers how social and political issues have driven piracy throughout history.

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March 15, 2012
The process of scientific discovery is one of observation, data collection, evaluation, and putting forth theories to explain our world. Ideas that have stood for decades are sometimes toppled and new findings revolutionize our thinking. In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Steve Holen talks about the quest to identify the time period in which humans first arrived in the Americas.