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Who were the first Americans?

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Clovis traditions
Paleo-Indians
The Kennewick Man
Vikings

Video: "Coming to America"

Native Networks

13 March 2006

• Humans May Have Reached the Americas 22,000 Years Ago -- NewScientist (25 April 2013)
  
  
• Towards the Origin of America's First Settlers -- ScienceDaily (17 April 2013)
  
  
• Continent-Wide Decoupling of Y-Chromosomal Genetic Variation from Language and Geography in Native South Americans -- PLoS Genetics (11 April 2013)
  
  
• Disputed Finds Put Humans in South America 22,000 Years Ago -- Science News (13 March 2013)
  
  
• In Ancient Ore. Dump, Clues To The First Americans? -- NPR (13 July 2012)
  
  
• Paisley Caves yield 13,000-year old Western Stemmed points -- Past Horizons (13 July 2012)
  
  
• Oregon stone tools enliven 'earliest Americans' debate -- BBC News (13 July 2012)
  • Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves -- Science (13 July 2012)
    
    
• Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds -- New York Times (11 July 2012)
  
  
• Native American Populations Descend from Three Key Migrations, Scientists Say -- ScienceDaily (11 July 2012)
  
  
• How Did the First Americans Spread Across the Continent? -- ABC News (27 June 2012)
  
  
• Peopling the Planet -- Nature (02 May 2012)
  
  
• Ancient American Skeletons Safe From Reburial, But Only for the Moment -- Science (01 May 2012)
  
  
• Radical theory of first Americans places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva 20,000 years ago -- Washington Post (29 February 2012)
  
  
• New Evidence Suggests Stone Age Hunters from Europe Discovered America -- Independent (28 February 2012)
  
  
• Radical theory of first Americans places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva 20,000 years ago -- Brian Vastag, The Wasington Post (29 February 2012)
  
  
• Did Easter Islanders Mix It Up With South Americans? -- Science (06 February 2012)
  
  
• Tiny Mountainous Region in Siberia May Have Been Genetic Source of Earliest Native Americans -- ScienceDaily (26 January 2012)
  
  
• Northwest Natives Were Fishers, Not Hunter-Gatherers -- EurekAlert (09 November 2011)
  
  
• 9000 Year Old Tools Found in Baja California -- Past Horizons (25 October 2011)
  
  
• Old American Theory Is 'Speared' -- BBC News (20 October 2011)
  
  
• Photos: Speared Mastodon Bone Hints at Earlier Americans -- National Geographic News (21 October 2011)
  
  
• On the trail of North America’s 14,000 year old hunters -- Past Horizons (21 October 2011)
  
  
• Mastodons Were Hunted in North America 800 Years Earlier Than Thought -- Guardian (20 October 2011)
  
  
• What Slew An Ancient Mastodon? DNA Tells Tale -- NPR (20 October 2011)
  
  
• The Seaweed Trail: Peopling the Americas -- Past Horizons (12 October 2011)
  
  
• 'Oregon Archaeology' Digs Deep, Including the Human History -- EurekAlert (10 October 2011)
  
  
• On the trail of North America’s 14,000 year old hunters -- Past Horizons (21 October 2011)
  
  
• Knife Lake: Rewriting Prehistory -- Past Horizons (08 October 2011)
  
  
• Adovasio Continues Underwater Search for New Frontier -- EurekAlert (08 August 2011)
  
  
• Traditional Canoes Cross the Pacific -- DiscoveryNews (02 August 2011)
  
  
• Kon-Tiki Explorer Was Partly Right – Polynesians Had South American Roots -- Telegraph (18 June 2011)
  
  
• Stone Tools 'Demand New American Story' -- BBCNews (24 March 2011)
  • Texas Find Turns Back Clock On Settlers In America -- NPR (25 March 2011)
    • Hunting For Traces Of America's First Inhabitants-- NPR (25 March 2011)
  • Humans arrived in North America 2,500 years earlier than thought -- Guardian (24 March 2011)
    
    
• Pictures: Prehistoric American Skull Found in Sea Cave? -- National Geographic New (09 March 2011-02-25)
  
  
• Island Tool Finds Show Early Settlers' Diversity -- BBCNews (04 March 2011)
  
  
• This seafood buffet was held 11,000 years ago -- MSNBC (03 March 2011)
  
  
• Child's 11,500-Year-Old Remains Unearthed In Alaska -- NPR (2011-02-25)
  
  
• Ice Age Child Found in Prehistoric Alaskan Home -- National Geographic New (25 February 2011)
  
  
• Discovery of Oldest Northern North American Human Remains Provides New Insights Into Ice-Age Culture -- ScienceDaily (24 February 2011)

"Who was the Kennewick Man?"

reconstruction
by Jim Chatters and Thomas McClelland

Kennewick Man HomePage

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• 'Little Horny Man:' Oldest Rock Carving of Americas -- Discovery News (23 February 2012)
  
  
• Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago, Study Says -- National Geographic News (13 March 2008)
  
  
• Americas Settled by Two Groups of Early Humans, Study Says -- National Geographic News (12 December 2005)
  
  
• Ancient Human Skeleton Removed from Mexican Cave -- Reuters (24 August 2010)
  
  
• 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 First / Pre-Clovis Problem, Revisited 2004 -- Tony Baker (15 September 2004)
  
  
• Clovis Mammoth Hunters: Out With a Whimper or a Bang? -- ScienceDaily (12 April 2010)
  
  
• Clovis People Not First Americans, Study Shows -- National Geographic News (23 February 2007)
  
  
• Comet Impacts Triggered Ice Age Extinctions? -- National Geographic News (21 July 2009)
  
  
• Coastal Navigators: The First Americans May Have Come by Water -- Brad Lepper (reprinted from Discovering Archaeology, February 2000)
  
  
• "Coming to America" -- Alan Alda [from video below]
  
  
• Did First Americans Arrive By Land and Sea? -- National Geographic News (06 November 2003)
  
  
• Did First Americans Come from Europe?: Archaeologist suggests prehistoric hunters from Spain sailed west -- MSNBC (19 February 2006)
  
  
• DNA & the Peopling of Siberia -- The Field Book Project, Smthsonian National Museum of Natural History
  
  
• DNA Secrets: Cave's latrines yield new evidence about prehistoric North America -- Jeff Barnard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: (04 December 2008)
  
  
• The Earliest Americans -- Friends of America's Past
  
  
• The Earliest Americans -- National Park Service, Archeology and Ethnology Program
  
  
• Earliest Americans took two paths -- Nature News (08 January 2009)
  
  
• Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed -- National Geographic News (08 May 2008)
  
  
• Early Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed -- ScienceDaily (21 March 2008)
  
  
• Exploring the Early Americas -- Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress
  
  
• First Americans Arrived Recently, Settled Pacific Coast, DNA Study Says -- National Geographic News (02 February 2007)
  
  
• First Americans Brought Anthrax? -- National Geographic News (23 March 2009)
  
  
• First Americans 'Reached Europe Five Centuries Before Columbus voyages' -- Telegraph (16 November 2010)
  
  
• Footprints of 'first Americans ' -- BBC News (05 July 2005)
  
  
• Fossil Feces Is Earliest Evidence of N. America Humans -- National Geographic (03 April 2008)
  
  
• Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait -- ScienceDaily (28 November 2007)
  
  
• How Did People Reach the Americas? -- US News (24 July 2008)
  
  
• Ice Age Climate Change Did Not Pose Significant Challenges to First Americans, Study Suggests -- ScienceDaily (12 April 2010)
  
  
• Kennewick Man -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Mammoths Doomed by Hunting, Climate: Study -- Discovery News (03 August 2009)
  
  
• The Mammoth Trumpet -- for the public and reports on all aspects of the peopling of the Americas
  
  
• Mexico: Ancient Woman [La Mujer de las Palmas] Suggests Diverse Migration -- MSNBC (23 July 2010)
  
  
• 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)
    
    
• Native American DNA Links to Six "Founding Mothers" -- National Geographic News (13 March 2008)
  
  
• New Land-Bridge Evidence Adds to Mystery of 1st Americans -- National Geographic News (17 October 2006)
  
  
• No Evidence for Clovis Comet Catastrophe, Archaeologists Say -- ScienceDaily (01 October 2010)
  
  
• North America's First Peoples More Genetically Diverse Than Thought, Mitochondrial Genome Analysis Reveals -- ScienceDaily (06 June 2010)
  
  
• Oldest American Artefact Unearthed -- Nature (05 November 2009)
  
  
• Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave? -- National Geographic News (03 September 2008)
  
  
• PaleoAmerican Origins -- Smithsonian Institution (1999)
  
  
• Peopling North America : population movements and migration -- Applied History Research Group / University of Calgary
  
  
• Prehistoric Hair Suggests 1st Eskimos Came From Asia -- National Geographic News (29 May 2008)
  
  
• Recently, Settled Pacific Coast, DNA Study Says -- National Geographic News (02 February 2007)
  
  
• Researcher traces roots of first Americans to Wisconsin -- Duluth News Tribune (11 September 2003)
  
  
• Retrace the trek of the first Americans -- Alan Boyle, MSNBC (16 February 1998)
  
  
• Scientist traces ancient "kelp highway": Ancient seafarers may have grazed their way from Asia to Americas -- MSNBC (19 February 2006)
  
  
• Seaweed Clears Up Ancient American Mystery -- MSNBC (08 May 2008)
  
  
• Sinkhole Holds 12,000-year-old Clues to Early Americans -- National Geographic (18 February 2009)
  
  
• 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: Native Americans Can Trace DNA to 6 Women -- NPR (14 March 2008)
  
  
• Study Says Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago -- HeraldNet/The Washington Post (31 July 2001)
  
  
• Testing Evolutionary and Dispersion Scenarios for the Settlement of the New World -- PLoS ONE (14 June 2010)
  
  
• Undersea Cave Yields One of Oldest Skeletons in Americas -- National Geographic News (14 September 2010)
  • Undersea Cave Yields Prehistoric Skeleton -- National Geographic News (17 September 2010)
    
    
• Underwater Exploration Seeks Evidence Of Early Americans -- ScienceDaily (09 July 2009)
  
  
• The Untold Saga of Early Man in America -- Time Magazine (07 March 2006)
  • Who Were The First Americans
  • Who Should Own the Bones?
  • A Tale Told By Ancient Bones
    
    
• Was the New World Settled Twice? -- Science (14 June 2010)
  
  
• Who Were The First Americans? -- National Geographic News (03 September 2003)
  
  
• Who Were the First Americans? -- tephen Fried, Parade (13 June 2010)
  
  
• Who Were The First Americans? -- Time (07 March 2006)
  
  
• Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre -- explore the story the Bering land bridge at this Canadian site

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• Videos
  
  
  • Last extinction -- NOVA (56 min., 2009, DVD 1842)
    
    
    • "Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." -- WGBH/Nova website.
      
      
      • End of the Big Beasts
      • The Extinction Debate
      • Extraordinary Artifacts
      • Modeling a Comet Airburst
      • Stone Age Toolkit
      • Before Clovis
        
        
    • NOVA: Last Extinction -- The Scout Report (10 April 2009, Volume 15, Number 14)
      
      
      • What, some ask, was the "last extinction?" It's a fair query indeed, and it happens to be understood as the period approximately 13,000 years ago when large animals were killed off across the North American continent. The exact cause of this extinction remains unknown, but this engaging program offered as part of the long-running NOVA series on public television offers up one particularly interesting theory. On this site, visitors can watch a preview of the program, and then make their way through six interactive sections, including "The Extinction Debate" and "Stone Age Toolkit". In "The Extinction Debate" visitors will be introduced to the wide range of scientific theories that have been actively debated and discussed in regards to this extinction. Moving on, the "Stone Age Toolkit" allows users to play a lively matching game where they can learn about the role that ten different primitive artifacts played in the lives of humans thousands of years ago. The site is rounded out by a teacher's guide and a set of additional links and readings. [KMG]
        
        
  • 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)