An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex

AS Dalton, M Margold, CR Stokes, L Tarasov… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The North American Ice Sheet Complex (NAISC; consisting of the Laurentide,
Cordilleran and Innuitian ice sheets) was the largest ice mass to repeatedly grow and decay …

Late Pleistocene exploration and settlement of the Americas by modern humans

MR Waters - Science, 2019 - science.org
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 …

The timing and effect of the earliest human arrivals in North America

L Becerra-Valdivia, T Higham - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
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 age of Clovis—13,050 to 12,750 cal yr BP

MR Waters, TW Stafford Jr, DL Carlson - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Thirty-two radiocarbon ages on bone, charcoal, and carbonized plant remains from 10
Clovis sites range from 11,110±40 to 10,820±10 14C years before the present (yr BP) …

Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, and the peopling of the Americas

JJ Halligan, MR Waters, A Perrotti, IJ Owens… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Stone tools and mastodon bones occur in an undisturbed geological context at the Page-
Ladson site, Florida. Seventy-one radiocarbon ages show that~ 14,550 calendar years ago …

Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas

BA Potter, JF Baichtal, AB Beaudoin… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
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 …

Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada

PD Heintzman, D Froese, JW Ives… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion

CL Scheib, H Li, T Desai, V Link, C Kendall, G Dewar… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Little is known regarding the first people to enter the Americas and their genetic legacy.
Genomic analysis of the oldest human remains from the Americas showed a direct …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)

VT Holliday, TL Daulton, PJ Bartlein, MB Boslough… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
A series of publications purport to provide evidence that the Earth was subjected to an
extraterrestrial event or events at∼ 12.9 ka creating an environmental cataclysm and the …

[HTML][HTML] Deglaciation of the north American ice sheet complex in calendar years based on a comprehensive database of chronological data: NADI-1

AS Dalton, HE Dulfer, M Margold, J Heyman… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The most recent deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex (NAISC: comprising
the Innuitian, Cordilleran, and Laurentide ice sheets) offers a broad perspective from which …