Routes: Alternate Migration Corridors for Early Man in North America

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Fladmark
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Cultural Adaptations ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The North ◽  
Migration Corridors ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The North Pacific

This paper reviews the relative feasibility of interior and coastal routes for early man entering southern North America from Beringia during the late Pleistocene. Paleoenvironmental and archaeological data suggest that a chain of sea-level refugia around the North Pacific coast could have provided a real alternative to the interior “ice-free” corridor and that maritime cultural adaptations may have been among the first to arrive south of Canada.

New Players at the Table: How Americans Came to Dominate Early Trade in the North Pacific

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-257
Author(s):  
William J. Barger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sea Otter ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Pacific ◽  
The North Pacific

After Captain James Cook's 1778-1779 discovery of the lucrative potential of the trade in sea otter pelts from the northern Pacific coast of North America, Russia, Britain, France, and Spain converged on the region. The United States joined the competition later. This paper compares the economic and territorial policies of the competing nations in the context of world affairs to explain how the United States came to dominate the sea otter trade and establish a presence in California.

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