Science news articles about 'european colonizers'

... usually refers to the groups that lived on the American continent prior to the arrival of the European colonizers. For the current study, Fejerman and colleagues identified the genetic ancestry of ...

... several factors combined to generate conditions favorable to wildfires," Marlon said. "Population growth and European colonization caused massive changes in land cover, and human-induced increases in ...

When Evo Morales, Bolivia's first president of Indian origin, was appointed in 2006 he initiated a "decolonising revolution."   Now, in a new thesis in social anthropology at the University of ...

... consequently underestimate the likely far-reaching effects such animals had on their ecosystems before European colonization. Although precise historical numbers cannot be known, written accounts ...