Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas

BA Potter, JF Baichtal, AB Beaudoin… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of
the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal …

Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America)–A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence

DS Kaufman, YL Axford, ACG Henderson… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Reconstructing climates of the past relies on a variety of evidence from a large number of
sites to capture the varied features of climate and the spatial heterogeneity of climate …

[HTML][HTML] A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

D Kaufman, N McKay, C Routson, M Erb, B Davis… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

RW Graham, S Belmecheri, K Choy… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Relict woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) populations survived on several small
Beringian islands for thousands of years after mainland populations went extinct. Here we …

Arctic Holocene proxy climate database–new approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables

HS Sundqvist, DS Kaufman, NP McKay… - Climate of the …, 2014 - cp.copernicus.org
We present a systematic compilation of previously published Holocene proxy climate
records from the Arctic. We identified 170 sites from north of 58° N latitude where proxy time …

BrGDGT temperature reconstruction from interior Alaska: Assessing 14,000 years of deglacial to Holocene temperature variability and potential effects on early human …

JR Kielhofer, JE Tierney, JD Reuther, BA Potter… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aeolian deposits in the middle Tanana Valley of central Alaska offer a well-preserved record
of paleoenvironmental change since the deglacial period (c. 16,000–11,000 cal yr BP) …

A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal

MJ Wooller, É Saulnier-Talbot… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Palaeoenvironmental records from the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge (BLB) covering
the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present are needed to document changing …

Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia

BA Potter, CM Halffman, HJ McKinney, JD Reuther… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late
prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well …

A 31,000 year record of paleoenvironmental and lake-level change from Harding Lake, Alaska, USA

MS Finkenbinder, MB Abbott, ME Edwards… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Physical and geochemical proxy analyses of sediment cores from Harding Lake in central
Alaska are used to reconstruct paleoenvironmental change and millennial scale fluctuations …

The micromorphology of loess‐paleosol sequences in central Alaska: A new perspective on soil formation and landscape evolution since the Late Glacial period (c …

J Kielhofer, C Miller, J Reuther, C Holmes… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The middle Tanana Valley of central Alaska contains a well‐preserved record of
human occupation and paleoenvironmental change since the Late Glacial period (c. 16,000 …