During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic
changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood …

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 …

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 …

Questions surrounding the chronology, place, and character of the initial human colonization
of the Americas are a long-standing focus of debate. Interdisciplinary debate continues over …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million
years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that …

The only certain evidence for prehistoric human hunting of horse and camel in North
America occurs at the Wally's Beach site, Canada. Here, the butchered remains of seven …