Abstract High-Throughput DNA Sequencing (HTS) technologies have changed the way in
which we detect and assess DNA contamination in ancient DNA studies. Researchers use …

Over the past two decades, the study of ancient genomes from Ancestral humans, or human
paleogenomic research, has expanded rapidly in both scale and scope. Ethical discourse …

Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical
regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral behavioral pattern. We …

INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

Genetic studies have consistently indicated a single common origin of Native American
groups from Central and South America,,,. However, some morphological studies have …

INTRODUCTION Genetic studies of the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas have focused
on the timing and number of migrations from Siberia into North America. They show that …

The initial colonization of the Americas remains a highly debated topic, and the exact timing
of the first arrivals is unknown. The earliest archaeological record of Mexico—which holds a …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

The genetic makeup of Indigenous populations inhabiting Mexico has been strongly
influenced by geography and demographic history. Here, we perform a genome-wide …

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