Ancient Genomes, Paleoenvironments, Archaeology and the Peopling of the Americas
Dennis O‘Rourke, University of Kansas Traditionally, indigenous American populations have been viewed as descendants of a small subset of the Eurasian population that migrated to the Western Hemisphere less than 15,000 years ago from Asia via the Bering Land Bridge. Recent archeological discoveries indicate that humans occupied high-latitude regions in Northeast Asia and Western Beringia…