The Late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans in the Americas

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5869, 2008, Pages 1497-1502

  Goebel, Ted ^a   Waters, Michael R ^a   O'Rourke, Dennis H ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COAST; COLONIZATION; DEGLACIATION; DISPERSAL; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ARCHEOLOGY; CANADA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASHORE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOSSILS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIBERIA;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIBERIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 40849085292     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153569     Document Type: Review

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