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 …

BACKGROUND North and South America were the last continents populated by modern
humans. The timing of their arrival, the routes they took, their homeland of origin, and how …

INTRODUCTION Large-scale human genome-sequencing studies to date have been limited
to large, metropolitan populations or to small numbers of genomes from each group. Much …

Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …

Radiocarbon dating of the earliest occupational phases at the Cooper's Ferry site in western
Idaho indicates that people repeatedly occupied the Columbia River basin, starting between …

The peopling of the Americas marks a major expansion of humans across the planet.
However, questions regarding the timing and mechanisms of this dispersal remain, and the …

The early peopling of the Americas has been one of the most hotly contested topics in
American anthropology and a research issue that draws archaeologists into a …

" 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 …

We review studies from our laboratories using different molecular tools to characterize the
Amerindian, European and African ancestry of Brazilians. Initially we used uniparental DNA …

The timing and character of the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas are measured by the
discovery of unequivocal artifacts from well-dated contexts. We report the discovery of a well …