Who was the 8-year-old boy of African ancestry buried among Colonial America’s elite? DNA study reveals

A new genetic study has uncovered a remarkable piece of Colonial American history buried quite literally beneath a 17th ...
Phys.org

Excavations reveal a Maya town's defiant stand in early colonial era

In the rolling countryside of the northern Yucatán, a team of researchers has brought to light the story of Hunacti—a short-lived 16th-century mission town whose stone streets and Spanish-style church ...
Phys.org

African skeletons from early colonial Mexico tell the story of first-generation slaves

Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry of the hundreds of thousands of abducted and enslaved people ...
The Conversation

Isotope analysis helps tell the stories of Aboriginal people living under early colonial expansion

Acknowledgement: we would like to extend our thanks to the Gkuthaarn and Kukatj People who invited us to work on this sensitive project through the lens of truth-telling – particularly Phillip George, ...
Helsinki

Comparing Early Modern Colonial Laws

CoCoLaw will provide a comparative account of how early modern colonial laws of England, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal evolved. The Project sets the colonial laws in two important contexts: the ...