Human Dispersal from Siberia to Beringia: Assessing a Beringian Standstill in Light of the Archaeological Evidence

• Autores: Kelly E. Graf, Ian Buvit
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 17, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene), págs. 583-603
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With genetic studies showing unquestionable Asian origins of the first Americans, the Siberian and Beringian archaeological records are absolutely critical for understanding the initial dispersal of modern humans in the Western Hemisphere. The genetics-based Beringian Standstill Model posits a three-stage dispersal process and necessitates several expectations of the archaeological record of northeastern Asia. Here we present an overview of the Siberian and Beringian Upper Paleolithic records and discuss them in the context of a Beringian Standstill. We report that not every expectation of the model is met with archaeological data at hand