Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics

E Willerslev, DJ Meltzer - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas

AR Perri, TR Feuerborn, LAF Frantz, G Larson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
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 …

Female hunters of the early Americas

R Haas, J Watson, T Buonasera, J Southon… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
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 …

Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

JV Moreno-Mayar, BA Potter, L Vinner, M Steinrücken… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Despite broad agreement that the Americas were initially populated via Beringia, the land
bridge that connected far northeast Asia with northwestern North America during the …

Early human dispersals within the Americas

JV Moreno-Mayar, L Vinner, P de Barros Damgaard… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
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 …

[ספר][B] People of the earth: An introduction to world prehistory

B Fagan, N Durrani - 2018‏ - taylorfrancis.com
People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

Beringia and the global dispersal of modern humans

JF Hoffecker, SA Elias, DH O'Rourke… - … : Issues, news, and …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa
dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native …

Early colonization of Beringia and Northern North America: Chronology, routes, and adaptive strategies

BA Potter, JD Reuther, VT Holliday, CE Holmes… - Quaternary …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Recent archaeological and paleoecological work along both interior and coastal routes for
early colonization of the New World has suggested that the interior route was impossible …

The coastal migration theory: Formulation and testable hypotheses

LG Davis, DB Madsen - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The presence of well-documented sites in the Americas predating and south of the opening
of an ice-free corridor in the North American ice sheets lends credence to a Pacific coastal …