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 …

An evaluation of recent claims for early human settlement of South America is presented.
Some of the problems with these cases are reviewed, particularly the ways in which …

" 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 …

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 …

Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized
megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. Supporting data are typically indirect (toolkits …

With genetic studies showing unquestionable Asian origins of the first Americans, the
Siberian and Beringian archaeological records are absolutely critical for understanding the …

In this paper, we present a new method for modeling past maritime movement events using
least cost path analysis. Nontraditional measures of movement cost, including cultural …

Fluted projectile points have long been recognized as the archaeological signature of early
humans dispersing throughout the Western Hemisphere; however, we still lack a clear …

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—
phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million …