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Who were the first Americans?

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see also
Clovis traditions
Paleo-Indians
Video: "Coming to America"

Native Networks

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13 March 2006

The Untold Saga of Early Man in America Time Magazine (3/7/06)

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Then there was the breaking news about the controversial and hotly-debated "Kennewick Man".

reconstruction
by Jim Chatters and Thomas McClelland

"Who was the Kennewick Man?"

Anthropology in the News lists it as the major story of the month:

• The Last Days of Kennewick Man -- CNN (2/24/05)
  • Kennewick Man Yields More Secrets -- Seattle Times (2/24/06)
  • Kennewick Man Deliberately Buried, Not A Flood Victim -- Komo News (2/24/06)
  • Kennewick Man Has Story to Tell -- Oregonian (2/24/06)
  • Kennewick Man Was Buried After He Died -- Tri City Herald (2/24/06)
  • Meet Kennewick Man -- Tri City Herald (2/25/06)
  • Yakamas Seek Peace Over Kennewick Man -- Tri City Herald (2/25/06)
  • Bones Tell Ancient Tale of Kennewick Man -- MSNBC (2/24/06)
  • Kennewick Man Deliberately Buried -- Yahoo (2/24/06)
  • National Museum of Natural History Scientist Studies Kennewick Man -- Smithsonian Institution (2/24/06)
  • For Kennewick Man, It's Something to Diet For -- Rocky Mountain News (2/25/06)
  
  
• and the Kennewick Man entry from Wikipedia
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_man>
  
  
• Further resources are available on the Prehistoric Cultures Kennewick Man page
  <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pckennewick.html#title>
  
  

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MSNBC ...

Did First Americans Come from Europe?: Archaeologist suggests prehistoric hunters from Spain sailed west (MSNBC 2/19/06) <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11451616/>

• look at the related sites at
  
  
  • Retrace the trek of the first Americans <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077301/>
    
    
  • Did the first Americans come from Australia? <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5927028/>
  • First Americans Arrived Recently, Settled Pacific Coast, DNA Study Says -- National Geographic News (2/2/2007)

     

Scientist traces ancient "kelp highway": Ancient seafarers may have grazed their way from Asia to Americas (MSNBC (2/19/06) <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11451754/>

BBC News - Footprints of ' first Americans ' They say the first Americans may have arrived by sea, rather than by foot.
5 Jul 2005

• Americas Settled by Two Groups of Early Humans, Study Says -- National Geographic News (12/12/200)
• Ancient Tools Unearthed in Siberian Arctic -- National Geographic News (14 January 2003)
• Arrival Set for First Americans -- Discoverchannel.com (01 August 2003)
• Bureau of Land Management -- Archaeology
• Center for the Study of the First Americans
• Clovis People Not First Americans, Study Shows -- National Geographic News (2/23/2007)
• Clovis First / Pre-Clovis Problem, Revisited 2004 -- Tony Baker (15 September 2004)
• "Coming to America" -- Alan Alda [from video below]
• Coastal Navigators: The First Americans May Have Come by Water -- Brad Lepper (reprinted from Discovering Archaeology, February 2000)
• Did First Americans Arrive By Land and Sea? -- National Geographic News (06 November 2003)
• The Earliest Americans -- Friends of America's Past
• The Earliest Americans -- National Park Service, Archeology and Ethnology Program
• Monte Verde
  • Monte Verde Under Fire: The validity of the earliest site in the Americas is called into question (18 October 1999)
  • The Importance of Monte Verde -- Mark Rose, ARCHAEOLOGY (18 October 1999)
• New Land-Bridge Evidence Adds to Mystery of 1st Americans -- National Geographic News (17 October 2006)
• PaleoAmerican Origins -- Smithsonian Institution (1999)
• Peopling North America : population movements and migration -- Applied History Research Group / University of Calgary
• Researcher traces roots of first Americans to Wisconsin -- Duluth News Tribune (11 September 2003)
• Solutrean culture -- Database
• The Solutrean Solution: Did Some Ancient Americans Come from Europe? -- Albert C. Goodyear & Alan L. Schneider (reprinted from Discovering Archaeology, February 2000)
• BBC > Science & Nature > TV & Radio Follow-up > Horizon > Stone Age Columbus - programme summary
• BBC > Science & Nature > TV & Radio Follow-up > Horizon > Stone Age Columbus - questions and answers
• Study Says Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago -- HeraldNet/The Washington Post (31 July 2001)
• Who Were The First Americans? -- National Geographic News (03 September 2003)
• Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre -- explore the story the Bering land bridge at this Canadian site
  
  
• nd the Kennewick Man entry from Wikipedia
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_man>
  
  
• Further resources are available on the Prehistoric Cultures Kennewick Man page
  <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pckennewick.html#title>
  

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• Other Sites
  
  
  • Exploring the Early Americas -- Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress
    
    
    

• Journals
  
  
  • The Mammoth Trumpet -- for the public and reports on all aspects of the peopling of the Americas
    
    
    
• Videos
  
  
  • Looking for One Beginning: The Fallacy of Diffusionism
    Films for the Humanities
    (50 min., 2000, DVD TBD)
    
    
  • Mystery of the First Americans
    (60 min., 2000, VC 3965)
      ~ includes Kennewick
      ~ NOVA companion web site
    
    
  • Scientific American Frontiers: "Coming to America" -- Alan Alda
    (60 min., 2004, DVD 145)
      ~ transcript
      ~ web resources
    
    
  • The Search for Ancient Americans
    (57 min., 1988, VC 1299)