Reconciling pre-Columbian settlement hypotheses requires integrative, multidisciplinary, and model-bound approaches

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Bortolini, Maria Cátira ^a   González José, Rolando ^b   Bonatto, Sandro L ^c   Santos, Fabricio R ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Centro Nacional Patagónico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; LINGUISTICS; MIGRATION; MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION;

EID: 84892567874     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321197111     Document Type: Letter

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