A Tale of Two Migrations: Reconciling Recent Biological and Archaeological Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas

@article{Pitblado2011ATO,
  title={A Tale of Two Migrations: Reconciling Recent Biological and Archaeological Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas},
  author={Bonnie L. Pitblado},
  journal={Journal of Archaeological Research},
  year={2011},
  volume={19},
  pages={327-375}
}
  • B. Pitblado
  • Published 12 March 2011
  • Environmental Science
  • Journal of Archaeological Research
This article synthesizes the 2000s-era “peopling of the Americas” data drawn from molecular biology, osteology, and archaeology. Collectively, they suggest that colonization proceeded in two pulses, both originating in western Beringia, and before that, south-central and southeastern Siberia. The first pulse occurred circa 16 k–15 k cal. B.P. by watercraft along the coast of Beringia and western North and South America. The second took place 1,000 years later and involved proto-Clovis hunter… 
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