ABSTRACT The Pacific coast of North America is a hypothesized route by which the earliest
inhabitants of the Americas moved southwards around the western margin of the Cordilleran …

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 …

Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in
archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal archaeology have transformed …

Abstract The northern Pacific Coast is an important area for understanding human
colonization of the Americas, but Late Pleistocene coastal sites are rare and interglacial sea …

While underwater archaeology has been practiced for decades, there is a resurgence in the
field moving beyond shipwrecks to investigate sites of great antiquity. Over 50 years ago …

Awareness of and interest in the role that coastlines and coastal adaptations played in the
development and dispersal of anatomically modern humans have grown over the last few …

While the North American archaeological record signals the presence of early humans
along the northeastern Pacific coast by the Late Pleistocene, we know little about the …

There are significant challenges to answering questions of Native American precontact
history with data from sites in marine submerged continental shelf settings. We find seven …

Considering arguments that the unique ecological conditions that exist in maritime
environments encouraged reduced residential mobility and hastened the development of …

ABSTRACT Cabo Pulmo National Park (CPNP), within the East Cape of Baja California Sur,
Mexico, is the location of a highly productive rocky reef ecosystem that was likely attractive to …