The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas
The Ushki Paleolithic sites of Kamchatka, Russia, have long been thought to contain information critical to the peopling of the Americas, especially the origins of Clovis. New radiocarbon dates indicate that human occupation of Ushki began only 13,000 calendar years ago—nearly 4000 years later than...
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craaas:10.1126/science.1086555 2024-06-09T07:47:24+00:00 The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas Goebel, Ted Waters, Michael R. Dikova, Margarita 2003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1086555 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1086555 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 301, issue 5632, page 501-505 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2003 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1086555 2024-05-16T12:54:30Z The Ushki Paleolithic sites of Kamchatka, Russia, have long been thought to contain information critical to the peopling of the Americas, especially the origins of Clovis. New radiocarbon dates indicate that human occupation of Ushki began only 13,000 calendar years ago—nearly 4000 years later than previously thought. Although biface industries were widespread across Beringia contemporaneous to the time of Clovis in western North America, these data suggest that late-glacial Siberians did not spreadinto Beringia until the endof the Pleistocene, perhaps too recently to have been ancestral to proposedpre-Clovis populations in the Americas. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kamchatka Beringia AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Science 301 5632 501 505 |
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The Ushki Paleolithic sites of Kamchatka, Russia, have long been thought to contain information critical to the peopling of the Americas, especially the origins of Clovis. New radiocarbon dates indicate that human occupation of Ushki began only 13,000 calendar years ago—nearly 4000 years later than previously thought. Although biface industries were widespread across Beringia contemporaneous to the time of Clovis in western North America, these data suggest that late-glacial Siberians did not spreadinto Beringia until the endof the Pleistocene, perhaps too recently to have been ancestral to proposedpre-Clovis populations in the Americas. |
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The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas |
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The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas |
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The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas |
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The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas |
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