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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ftpubman:oai:pure.mpg.de:item_3149608 2023-08-27T04:08:46+02:00 Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas Potter, B. Baichtal, J. Beaudoin, A. Fehren-Schmitz, L. Haynes, C. Holliday, V. Holmes, C. Ives, J. Kelly, R. Llamas, B. Malhi, R. Miller, D. Reich, D. Reuther, J. Schiffels, S. Surovell, T. 2018-08-08 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-5D5E-C http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-5D60-8 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aat5473 http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-5D5E-C http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-5D60-8 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Science Advances info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2018 ftpubman https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat5473 2023-08-02T00:02:06Z 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 Max Planck Society: MPG.PuRe 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, B. Baichtal, J. Beaudoin, A. Fehren-Schmitz, L. Haynes, C. Holliday, V. Holmes, C. Ives, J. Kelly, R. Llamas, B. Malhi, R. Miller, D. Reich, D. Reuther, J. Schiffels, S. Surovell, T. |
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Potter, B. Baichtal, J. Beaudoin, A. Fehren-Schmitz, L. Haynes, C. Holliday, V. Holmes, C. Ives, J. Kelly, R. Llamas, B. Malhi, R. Miller, D. Reich, D. Reuther, J. Schiffels, S. Surovell, T. Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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