The antiquity of the first Americans is one of the most controversial issues in American
archaeology, and it must be resolved to understand fully the adaptive radiation of Homo …

The question of when the first people came to North America defies consensus. Data from
an array of fields would seem to narrow the number and timing of migrations, but that …

Important to an understanding of the first peopling of any continent is an understanding of
human dispersion and adaptation and their archeological signatures. Until recently, the …

The model of settlement of the New World proposed by Greenberg, Turner, and Zegura (CA
27: 477-97) ignores recent archaeological data from South America, and as a result its time …

AbsTRAcT Archaeological evidence from North America shows that Clovis complex sites
date between 13,000 and 12,600 cal yr BP. The evidence for the Clovis complex pre-dating …

Recent findings in studies on the peopling of the Americas have caused even staunch
''Clovis First''supporters like myself to reconsider their positions. A probable pre-Clovis age …

Various chronologies of the earliest Native American occupations have been proposed with
varying levels of empirical support and conceptual rigor, yet none is widely accepted. A …

The prevailing archaeological consensus on Paleoindian origins and colonization of the
Americas has been shaken by recent wide acknowledgment of pre-Clovis occupation at …

The study of the peopling of the Americas has been transformed in the past decade by
astonishing progress in paleogenomic research. Ancient genomes now show that Native …

The majority of scholars studying the human colonization of the New World agree that the
first Americans, traditionally identifed as Paleoindians, entered near the end of the …