Search Results - "David, J. Meltzer"
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First peoples in a new world: colonizing ice age America
Published 2009“…More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just…”
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Pleistocene Overkill and North American Mammalian Extinctions
Published in Annual review of anthropology (01-01-2015)“…Clovis groups in Late Pleistocene North America occasionally hunted several now extinct large mammals. But whether their hunting drove 37 genera of animals to…”
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Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (03-11-2017)“…Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band…”
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Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor
Published in Nature (London) (01-09-2016)“…During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia (northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By…”
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The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man
Published in Nature (London) (23-07-2015)“…Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old male human skeleton discovered in Washington state, USA, has been the subject of scientific and legal controversy; here a DNA…”
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Clovis at the end of the world
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Chronological evidence fails to support claim of an isochronous widespread layer of cosmic impact indicators dated to 12,800 years ago
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-05-2014)“…According to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), ∼12,800 calendar years before present, North America experienced an extraterrestrial impact that…”
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Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America’s Ice Age megafauna
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-11-2020)“…The end of the Pleistocene in North America saw the extinction of 38 genera of mostly large mammals. As their disappearance seemingly coincided with the…”
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Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics
Published in Nature (London) (17-06-2021)“…In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These…”
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Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill
Published 2006“…In the late 1920s outside a sleepy remote New Mexico village, prehistory was made. Spear points, found embedded between the ribs of an extinct Ice Age bison at…”
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Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-02-2021)“…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…”
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The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene
Published in Nature (London) (01-06-2019)“…Northeastern Siberia has been inhabited by humans for more than 40,000 years but its deep population history remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the…”
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Early human dispersals within the Americas
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (07-12-2018)“…Studies of the peopling of the Americas have focused on the timing and number of initial migrations. Less attention has been paid to the subsequent spread of…”
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Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics
Published in Nature (London) (02-12-2021)“…During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not…”
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Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis 'connection'
Published in World archaeology (01-12-2005)“…Bradley and Stanford ( 2004 ) have raised now, in several instances, the claim that European Upper Paleolithic Solutrean peoples colonized North America, and…”
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The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana
Published in Nature (London) (13-02-2014)“…The first individual genome from the Clovis culture is presented; the origins and genetic legacy of the people who made Clovis tools have been under debate,…”
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A composite window into human history
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-06-2017)“…Better integration of ancient DNA studies with archaeology promises deeper insights Over the past decade, the ability to recover whole genomes from ancient…”
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Kennewick Man: coming to closure
Published in Antiquity (01-12-2015)“…Few human remains from the distant past have achieved the public visibility and notoriety of Kennewick Man (the Ancient One). Since his discovery in July 1996…”
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Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-07-2013)“…The “North Atlantic Ice-Edge Corridor” hypothesis proposes that sometime during the Last Glacial Maximum, roughly 26,500–19,000 years ago, human populations…”
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Would North American Paleoindians have Noticed Younger Dryas Age Climate Changes?
Published in Journal of world prehistory (01-03-2010)“…Paleoindian groups occupied North America throughout the Younger Dryas Chronozone. It is often assumed that cooling temperatures during this interval, and the…”
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