The initial peopling of the Americas has proved one of the most challenging episodes in
reconstructing global prehistory, challenging because researchers struggle with the …

When many scholars are asked about early human settlement in the Americas, they might
point to a handful of archaeological sites as evidence. Yet the process was not a simple one …

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 …

The Americas, the last continents to be entered by modern humans, were colonized during
the late Pleistocene via a land bridge across what is now the Bering strait. However, the …

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 …

Understanding how and when humans first settled California is intimately linked to theories
of the initial colonization of the Americas. Questions about the timing of the earliest …

BACKGROUND North and South America were the last continents populated by modern
humans. The timing of their arrival, the routes they took, their homeland of origin, and how …

This article synthesizes the 2000s-era “peopling of the Americas” data drawn from molecular
biology, osteology, and archaeology. Collectively, they suggest that colonization proceeded …

Our species colonized North and South America last of all the major land masses, thereby
ending the spread that began a million years earlier when ancestral members of the genus …

Following several discussions in recent numbers of Quaternary Research on the peopling of
the Americas, this paper suggests that movements into the New World should be viewed in …