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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Spatiotemporal distribution of the North American Indigenous population prior to European contact.

Robert L Kelly, Madeline E Mackie, Spencer R Pelton, Erick Robinson

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Ancient forests help document the long-term impacts of climate change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  2. Archaeology and traversing America's pre-Columbian fault line.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Robert L KellyDepartment of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071.ORCID 0000-0001-9737-0152
Madeline E MackieDepartment of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.ORCID 0000-0003-0769-2348
Spencer R PeltonOffice of the Wyoming State Archaeologist, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071.ORCID 0000-0001-7429-8741
Erick RobinsonDivision of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512.

Funding

NSF, Archaeology Program BCS 14-18858NSF, Archaeology Program BCS 16-24061NSF, Archaeology Program BCS 18-22033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examine spatiotemporal trends in the pre-European-contact Indigenous population of North America using radiocarbon (

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Indians, North AmericanArchaeologyEuropeHistory, AncientHumansNorth AmericaPopulation DynamicsRadiometric DatingSpatio-Temporal AnalysisarchaeologydemographyNorth Americaradiocarbon

Identifiers

PMID39899709
PMCPMC11831114

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