ReviewScience advances2018
Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas.
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- Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic.Science advances · 2025Review
- Psychiatric genetics in the diverse landscape of Latin American populations.Nature genetics · 2025Review
- Late Pleistocene onset of mutualistic human/canid (Science advances · 2024Article
- Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans.Nature communications · 2024Article
- New age constraints for human entry into the Americas on the north Pacific coast.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A female woolly mammoth's lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp.Science advances · 2024Article
- News and Perspectives: Words matter in primatology.Primates; journal of primatology · 2024Article
- Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia.Science advances · 2023Article
- Ice and ocean constraints on early human migrations into North America along the Pacific coast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Reconstructing the history of founder events using genome-wide patterns of allele sharing across individuals.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- The age of the opening of the Ice-Free Corridor and implications for the peopling of the Americas.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The immunogenetic impact of European colonization in the Americas.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Review
- A genomic perspective on South American human history.Genetics and molecular biology · 2022Article
- The genomic landscape of Mexican Indigenous populations brings insights into the peopling of the Americas.Nature communications · 2021Article
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- Deep genetic affinity between coastal Pacific and Amazonian natives evidenced by Australasian ancestry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
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 migration, dependent on high marine productivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Clovis, the earliest widespread cultural manifestation south of the glacial ice. Speculations on maritime adaptations and typological links (stemmed points) across thousands of kilometers have also been advanced. A review of the current genetic, archeological, and paleoecological evidence indicates that ancestral Native American population expansion occurred after 16,000 years ago, consistent with the archeological record, particularly with the earliest securely dated sites after ~15,000 years ago. These data are largely consistent with either an inland (ice-free corridor) or Pacific coastal routes (or both), but neither can be rejected at present. Systematic archeological and paleoecological investigations, informed by geomorphology, are required to test each hypothesis.
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