Peopling of the Americas

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Report1907

Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America

Aleš Hrdlička

Reviews every skeleton then claimed to prove a very ancient human presence in North America and finds none of them convincing, arguing the continent was peopled far more recently than rival claims held.

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Archaeology · American Archaeology

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Paper2007

Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of the Americas

Michael R. Waters & Thomas W. Stafford

Recalibrates radiocarbon dates from Clovis sites to argue the Clovis complex lasted only a few centuries rather than a millennium, evidence used to challenge the long-standing model that Clovis toolmakers were the first people to enter the Americas.

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