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 …

MtDNA has been a widely used tool in human evolutionary and population genetic studies
over the past three decades. Its maternal inheritance and lack of recombination have offered …

INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain
despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far as …

For societies with writing systems, hereditary leadership is documented as one of the
hallmarks of early political complexity and governance. In contrast, it is unknown whether …

The timing of the first entry of humans into North America is still hotly debated within the
scientific community. Excavations conducted at Bluefish Caves (Yukon Territory) from 1977 …

" 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 Ice Free Corridor has been invoked as a route for Pleistocene human and animal
dispersals between eastern Beringia and more southerly areas of North America. Despite …

Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa
dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native …

Recent archaeological and paleoecological work along both interior and coastal routes for
early colonization of the New World has suggested that the interior route was impossible …