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Description: Summary of current evidence and diverse views about the issue.
The Paleoamericans: Issues and Evidence Relating to the Peopling of the New World Issues and Evidence Relating to The question of human antiquity in the Americas remains one of the great unanswered research problems of science and one of the most contentious and debated issues in American archaeology. First entry is an important question. Important theoretical issues hinge on the location, origin and timing of migrations to the Americas. Despite seventy years of archaeological research and several apparent resolutions to the problem, the timing and mechanisms by which the New World was peopled continues to be debated by specialists. Currently, no definitive evidence exists to establish when the first Americans arrived, or who they were, to the satisfaction of the many researchers in diverse scientific fields focused on the problem. Additionally, researchers are proposing very different answers to this important question.
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Page title:The Paleoamericans: Issues and Evidence Relating to the Peopling of the New World
Keywords:paleoamericans, first americans, americas, american archaeology, Beringia, Monte Verde, Meadowcroft, paleoamerican, Folsom, Pleistocene, Clovis, radiocarbon dating, Siberia, Lehner, Murray Springs, Amerindian, human origins, mtDNA, glottochronology, Denisova Cave, Arctic, linguistic, genetic, dating, Late-entry, Early-entry, pre-Clovis, Goshen, Alaska, Nenama, Paleoindian Tradition, Old Crow, bone collagen, Bluefish Caves, Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Fort Rock Cave, False Cougar Cave, La Sena, mammoth, mastodon, megafauna, Levi Shelter, Bonfire Shelter, Cactus Hill, Tlapacoya, El Cedral, Thomas Dillehay, Christy Turner, James Adovasio, Lapa Vermelha, Minas Gerais, Lapo de Boquete, Santana do Riacho, Tibihs, Taima-Taima, Pedra Furada, geofact, paradigm, ice age, peopling, Holocene, archaeology, James Q. Jacobs, prehistory, articles, writing, peopling
Description:Archaeology article examining theories and evidence related to the first peopling of the Americas.
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