This paper summarizes current evidence for earliest human occupation of northeastern
North America during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. We review evolution of the …

Research into the earliest occupations in the southeastern United States has been
underway since the 1930s, when a pattern of large-scale excavations combined with the …

The impact of changing climate on terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites, historic
buildings, and cultural landscapes can be examined through quantitatively-based analyses …

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 …

Sea-level rise during the last deglaciation and through the Holocene was influenced by
deformational, gravitational, and rotational effects (henceforth glacial isostatic adjustment …

The timing of the earliest colonization of North America is debatable, but what is not at issue
is the point of origin of the early colonists: Humans entered the continent from Beringia and …

This paper reviews the published information, uncertainties about claims, and possible
technological and cultural relationships of a sample of sites which have older-than-Clovis …

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человеком Нового Света, древнейшим археологическим памятникам Америки, связям …

Current understanding of the processes involved in the Late Pleistocene human settlement
of North America has benefited from the application of theoretical perspectives derived from …

A number of different scenarios have been proposed regarding the origin, timing, and
directions initial populations took as they first entered the Americas. In this chapter the major …