Jennifer Raff

Associate Professor, Anthropology, The University of Kansas

Jennifer Raff is associate professor in anthropology and affiliate faculty member in the Indigenous Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (2022).

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Written by Jennifer Raff

Footprints on a sandy desert landscape with sparse bushes, distant mountains, a cloudy sky, and an antenna structure in the background.

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Archaeology

Finding the First Americans

Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why

Jennifer Raff