Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas
Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal migration, dependent on high marine productivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Cl...
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ftcdlib:qt4dc782v7 2023-05-15T15:44:13+02:00 Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Hollidays, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A eaat5473 2018-08-01 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4dc782v7 english eng eScholarship, University of California qt4dc782v7 http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4dc782v7 public Potter, Ben A; Baichtal, James F; Beaudoin, Alwynne B; Fehren-Schmitz, Lars; Haynes, C Vance; Hollidays, Vance T; et al.(2018). Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 4(8), eaat5473. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat5473. UC Office of the President: Research Grants Program Office (RGPO). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4dc782v7 article 2018 ftcdlib https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat5473 2019-03-08T23:52:14Z Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal migration, dependent on high marine productivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Clovis, the earliest widespread cultural manifestation south of the glacial ice. Speculations on maritime adaptations and typological links (stemmed points) across thousands of kilometers have also been advanced. A review of the current genetic, archeological, and paleoecological evidence indicates that ancestral Native American population expansion occurred after 16,000 years ago, consistent with the archeological record, particularly with the earliest securely dated sites after ~15,000 years ago. These data are largely consistent with either an inland (ice-free corridor) or Pacific coastal routes (or both), but neither can be rejected at present. Systematic archeological and paleoecological investigations, informed by geomorphology, are required to test each hypothesis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Strait University of California: eScholarship Bering Strait Pacific Science Advances 4 8 eaat5473 |
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Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal migration, dependent on high marine productivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Clovis, the earliest widespread cultural manifestation south of the glacial ice. Speculations on maritime adaptations and typological links (stemmed points) across thousands of kilometers have also been advanced. A review of the current genetic, archeological, and paleoecological evidence indicates that ancestral Native American population expansion occurred after 16,000 years ago, consistent with the archeological record, particularly with the earliest securely dated sites after ~15,000 years ago. These data are largely consistent with either an inland (ice-free corridor) or Pacific coastal routes (or both), but neither can be rejected at present. Systematic archeological and paleoecological investigations, informed by geomorphology, are required to test each hypothesis. |
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Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Hollidays, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A |
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Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Hollidays, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Hollidays, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A |
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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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