@article{300bbe31bca541afa14db69984f7c946,
title = "Early colonization of Beringia and Northern North America: Chronology, routes, and adaptive strategies",
abstract = "Recent archaeological and paleoecological work along both interior and coastal routes for early colonization of the New World has suggested that the interior route was impossible, leaving the coastal route as the only colonization route taken by Clovis ancestors. We review the geological, paleoecological, and archaeological record for Eastern Beringia and adjacent areas. Spatio-temporal patterning of known sites and evaluation of early interior and coastal route radiocarbon, luminescence, and cosmogenic dating, along with new analyses of obsidian distribution and adaptive strategies of early Beringians, indicate this assessment is premature and the interior route remains a viable hypothesis, available by at least 13,560 and possibly 14,900 years ago.",
keywords = "Beringia, Coastal migration, Ice Free Corridor, Paleoindians",
author = "Potter, {Ben A.} and Reuther, {Joshua D.} and Holliday, {Vance T.} and Holmes, {Charles E.} and Miller, {D. Shane} and Nicholas Schmuck",
note = "Funding Information: Any review of this scope relies on the analytical and synthetic work of many researchers, and we thank them collectively for their efforts. In particular, we thank Jeff Rasic and Jeff Speakman for their efforts in helping to compile obsidian geochemical sourcing data for the broader region. We thank the Stuart Fiedel and two anonymous reviewers for their comments. Funding support for work at Upward Sun River and Mead includes Denali LLC workforce development grants and the National Science Foundation (grants # 0813819 , 1057448 , 1138811 , 1223119 ). Funding support for Swan Point includes the National Science Foundation (grant # 0540235 ) and Alaska Office of History and Archaeology (Historic Preservation grant). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1016/j.quaint.2017.02.034",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "444",
pages = "36--55",
journal = "Quaternary International",
issn = "1040-6182",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}