- Yana RHS site, earliest occupation of Siberia
- Late Pleistocene Siberia: Setting the Stage for the Peopling of the Americas
- Three Stage Colonization Model for the Peopling of the Americas
- The Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) Cosmic Impact Hypothesis, 12.9 ka: A Review
- Bioarchaeological Biographies of Ancient Americans
- Paisley Caves: 14,500 Years of Human Occupations in the Northern Great Basin
- The Mammoth Steppe Hypothesis: The Mid Wisconsin (OIS 3) Peopling of the Americas
- North America Before Clovis: Variance in Temporal/Spatial Cultural Patterns, 24,000 to 13,000 BP
On the archaeogenetics side, an intriguing abstract of Eske Willerslev's talk:
A Genomic Sequence of a Clovis Individual
The Clovis complex is by some scientists considered being the oldest unequivocal evidence of humans in the Americas, dating between ca. 11,050 to 10,800 14C yr B.P. Only one human skeleton has been directly AMS dated to Clovis age and found associated with Clovis technology namely the Anzick human remains from Montana. We are currently sequencing the nuclear and mitochondrial genome from this human skeleton in order to address the origins and descendents of Clovis. I will present the results obtained by our international consortium.In terms of the "three-migration" model, Clovis ought to be "First American". But, there is evidence that at least archaeologically Clovis had company and predecessors, so it will be interesting to see how closely the sample will match our expectation of what "First American" DNA looked like.
There is also the issue of the Solutrean hypothesis; if early North Americans had European ancestors, and the early population was diluted by subsequent population movements from Asia, this ought to show up. Additionally, there is the hypothesis of a common North Eurasian ancestry affecting both Europe and Amerindians, which would predict that the Clovis individual would be an early descendant possessing that type of ancestry.
In about a year we might know much more about the identity of early New World populations, and, by implication, adapt our views about the settling of the Old World itself.