Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere

JF Hoffecker, SA Elias, GR Scott… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Did Beringian environments represent an ecological barrier to humans until less than 15
000 years ago or was access to the Americas controlled by the spatial–temporal distribution …

Current understanding of the earliest human occupations in the Americas: evaluation of Becerra-Valdivia and Higham (2020)

BA Potter, JC Chatters, AM Prentiss, SJ Fiedel… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Various chronologies of the earliest Native American occupations have been proposed with
varying levels of empirical support and conceptual rigor, yet none is widely accepted. A …

Sites in the Americas with Possible or Probable Evidence for the Butchering of Proboscideans

G Haynes - PaleoAmerica, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Proboscideans may have been important prey for Pleistocene foragers in the Americas.
Dozens of proboscidean sites have been claimed to show evidence of human involvement …

Initial human colonization of the Americas, redux

SJ Fiedel - Radiocarbon, 2022 - cambridge.org
The study of the peopling of the Americas has been transformed in the past decade by
astonishing progress in paleogenomic research. Ancient genomes now show that Native …

Evaluating claims of early human occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico

JC Chatters, BA Potter, AM Prentiss, SJ Fiedel… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Archaeologists working in Mexico recently claimed evidence for pre-Last Glacial Maximum
human occupation in the Americas, based on lithic items excavated from Chiquihuite Cave …

Questioning the anthropic nature of Pedra Furada and the Piauí sites

YAG Coutouly - PaleoAmerica, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Many archaeologists are still skeptical about a human presence in the Americas during or
before the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), considering that the claim is not yet sustained by …

Does the evidence at Arroyo del Vizcaíno (Uruguay) support the claim of human occupation 30,000 years ago?

JA Holcomb, RD Mandel, E Otárola-Castillo… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Researchers at Arroyo del Vizcaíno (AdV), Uruguay, have argued that human
occupation dates prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (33,000–31,000 cal BP) based on the …

Mind the guardrails: epistemic trespassing and apt deference

N Levy, R Varley - Social Epistemology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
An epistemic trespasser is someone who lacks expertise in a domain yet expresses an
opinion about its subject matter based on their own assessment of the evidence. Epistemic …

[HTML][HTML] Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na'

JT White, A Henry, S Kuehn, MG Loso, JT Rasic - Quaternary International, 2022 - Elsevier
After decades of debate, the homeland of the First Americans is now generally understood to
be northeast Asia; however, the process of Late Pleistocene peopling remains unresolved …

Un peuplement antérieur à 20 000 ans en Amérique?

YA Gómez Coutouly - Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 2021 - JSTOR
La question du premier peuplement préhistorique du continent américain a toujours fait
l'objet de vifs débats. L'une des controverses actuelles concerne la possibilité d'une …