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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Although it is widely recognised that America was the last continent to be populated by our
species, researchers' views on various aspects of this process (eg the period in which it …

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 …

The timing, pathways, and number of migrations involved in the early peopling of the New
World are examined from a variety of perspectives. Ultimately, the occupation of the Western …

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relatively recently, long-standing archaeological consensus was that the carriers of Clovis …