Traditional syntheses of the archaeology of the late Pleistocene period in South America
have focused primarily on the peopling of the continent by North American cultural groups …

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 …

Hunter-gatherer populations lived in wildly different geographic settings in the Americas
and, not surprisingly, developed a wide range of subsistence, settlement and organizational …

There is widespread agreement among archeologists that most late Pleistocene and early
Holocene human populations were mobile, traversing large foraging territories to meet …

The first Europeans who ventured into the forests of southeastern North America found them
inhabited by a dense and diverse native population. It is clear from the sixteenth-century …

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 …

▪ Abstract A general overview of hunter-gatherer archaeology in South America is given by
recognizing the main problems in a South American context. Environmental framework and …

A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the
entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations …

The archaeology of Lower Central America is just beginning to emerge from decades of
scientific neglect and antiquated research. Large tracts of hinterland between eastern …

North America was first peopled sometime after 15 000 years ago. Human hunters entered
the continent by way of northeastern Siberia, over a land bridge opened by lowered sea …