Peopling of North America

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter describes peopling in North America and summarizes where they were when The International Union for Quaternary Science (INQUA) was here 1965. One element common to many models of colonization (in elsewhere) is that colonizers on a landscape with few other people not only had be able track great distances find mates exchange information resources, also get along near distantly related groups encountered. conventional view fast-moving, big-game hunters exploding the continent as ice-free corridor zipped opened terminal Pleistocene times no longer tenable scenario initial America. Yet, though it now believed process far more complex––beginning much earlier, possibly involving multiple migratory pulses different entry route––fundamental questions about antiquity, number, timing, adaptive strategies peoples remain.