In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of
the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown …

The date for the initial colonization of Sahul is a key benchmark in human history and the
topic of a long-running debate. Most analysts favor either a 40,000 BP or 60,000 BP arrival …

This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes
a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

The evolution of prehistoric weaponry remains an open question in North American
archaeology. The traditional model argues for an early use of the throwing spear followed by …

Recent archaeological research has fundamentally altered our understanding of the scope
of past human impacts on nondomesticated animal populations. Predictions derived from …

GIS-based, least-cost analyses employing continental scale elevation data, coupled with
information on the late glacial location of ice sheets and pluvial lakes, suggest possible …

The founding of New World populations by Asian peoples is the focus of considerable
archaeological and genetic research, and there persist important questions on when and …

Abstract The North American archaeological phenomenon known as Clovis is famous for the
fact that a number of sites that contain diagnostic Clovis artifacts also contain the remains of …

Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable
alternative to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas—one of the …