The questions–When did humans arrive in the Americas? Who were they, or from where did
they come from?–are enduring and fascinating inquiries that have been approached from …

This article is a general overview of early American archaeology, an updated synthesis of
the most important archaeological data and radicoarbon dates concerning the oldest phases …

The timing and mode (s) of the initial human occupation of the Americas are among the most
discussed topics in archaeology and biological anthropology, with hundreds of articles …

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 …

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 …

In many countries social or cultural anthropology is practised as an independent discipline,
quite separately from its related disciplines. The disciplines assumed to be related …

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

The early history of human exploration and achievement in the Americas is a register of
ideas inferred from the combination of archeological, paleoecological, biological, and …

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 …

This work presents a departure from the traditional archaeological paradigm which has
yielded an impasse in the study of the Pleistocene peopling and early prehistory of the …