The Relevance of Old World Archeology to the first Entry of Man into the New World

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Author: Klein, Richard G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1975
• Subjects: Alaska; Beringia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(75)90039-3; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589475900393?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589475900393?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400032051

Archeological evidence from the USSR suggests that cultural adaptations to the most rigorous (most continental) environments of northern Eurasia were not achieved until 35–40,000 BP. This presumably sets an absolute basement date for the entry of man into Alaska through the region of Beringia. The absence of evidence for pre-14,000 yr old man in the 48 adjacent United States comparable in any sense to the evidence that has been developed for man prior to 14,000 y.a. in the Old World suggests that movement south out of Alaska only occurred after 14,000 BP.