New Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas. Alan Lyle Bryan, editor. Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine, Orono, 1986. i + 368 pp., figures, tables, references cited, index. $32.00 inside North America (paper); $42.00 outside North America (paper).

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-656
Author(s):  
David J. Meltzer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
New Evidence

Fossil flower of Staphylea L. from the Miocene amber of Mexico: New evidence of the Boreotropical Flora in low-latitude North America

2017 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana L. Hernández-Damián ◽  
Sergio R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz ◽  
Alma R. Huerta-Vergara
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
First Record ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Low Latitude ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Evidence

ABSTRACTA new flower preserved in amber in sediments of Simojovel de Allende, México, is identified as an extinct member of Staphyleaceae, a family of angiosperms consisting of only three genera (Staphylea, Turpinia and Euscaphis), which has a large and abundant fossil record and is today distributed over the Northern Hemisphere. Staphylea ochoterenae sp. nov. is the first record of a flower for this group, which is small, pedicelled, pentamer, bisexual, with sepals and petals with similar size, dorsifixed anthers and superior ovary. Furthermore, the presence of stamens with pubescent filaments allows close comparison with extant flowers of Staphylea bulmada and S. forresti, species currently growing in Asia. However, their different number of style (one vs. three) and the apparent lack of a floral disc distinguish them from S. ochoterenae. The presence of Staphyleaceae in southern Mexico ca. 23 to 15My ago is evidence of the long history of integration of vegetation in low-latitude North America, in which some lineages, such as Staphylea, could move southwards from high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, as part of the Boreotropical Flora. In Mexico it grew in association with tropical elements, as suggested by the fossil record of the area.

scholarly journals New evidence for an early settlement of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico: The Chan Hol 3 woman and her meaning for the Peopling of the Americas

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e0227984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Stinnesbeck ◽  
Samuel R. Rennie ◽  
Jerónimo Avilés Olguín ◽  
Sarah R. Stinnesbeck ◽  
Silvia Gonzalez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals NEW EVIDENCE OF THE EARLIEST DOMESTIC DOGS IN THE AMERICAS

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Perri ◽  
Chris Widga ◽  
Dennis Lawler ◽  
Terrance Martin ◽  
Thomas Loebel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Domestic Dogs ◽  
Pike County ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
Active Lifestyles ◽  
Riverine Fish ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Greene County ◽  
Isotope Analyses

The domestication of dogs likely occurred in Eurasia by 16,000 years ago, and the initial peopling of the Americas potentially happened around the same time. Dogs were long thought to have accompanied the first migrations into the Americas, but conclusive evidence for Paleoindian dogs is lacking. In this study, the direct dating of two dogs from the Koster site (Greene County, Illinois) and a newly described dog from the Stilwell II site (Pike County, Illinois) to between 10,190 and 9,630 cal BP represents the earliest confirmed evidence of domestic dogs in the Americas and individual dog burials anywhere in the world. Analysis of these animals shows Early Archaic dogs were medium sized, lived active lifestyles, and exhibited significant morphological variation. Stable isotope analyses suggest diets dominated by terrestrial C3resources and substantial consumption of riverine fish.

The Oldest Bryozoans: New Evidence From the Late Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) of East Yangtze Gorges in China

2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 1308-1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Sheng Xia ◽  
Sen-Gui Zhang ◽  
Zong-Zhe Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Early Ordovician ◽  
The World ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
New Bryozoans

Previous reports of Cambrian bryozoans have proved not to be bryozoans. No pre-Ordovician bryozoans have been recognized. The oldest unequivocal bryozoans known from North America, Britain, and Russia are evidently of early Arenigian age. New bryozoans recently collected from the Fenxiang Formation in the Daping and Guanzhuangping sections, situated in the area east of the Yangtze Gorges, are described here, including one new genus, Orbiramus, and six new species, Nekhorosheviella nodulifera, N. semisphaerica, Orbiramus normalis, O. ovalis, O. minus, and Prophyllodictya prisca. These are assigned to the Trepostomida, apart from the last species which belongs to the Cryptostomida. The new bryozoans are from the conodont Paltodus deltifer deltifer Zone of the late Tremadocian age, the first three species possibly being present in the P. deltifer pristinus Subzone at the base. Therefore, they are the oldest bryozoans known from anywhere in the world. Extensive reefs resulting from a major regression in the late Tremadocian were dominated by bryozoans in the upper Fenxiang Formation. The bryozoans lived in a shoal environment and accumulated essentially in situ, showing no signs of significant transportation.

On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (261) ◽  
pp. 695-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Meltzer ◽  
James M. Adovasio ◽  
Tom D. Dillehay
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
South American ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
Monte Verde ◽  
A Site

The last decades of fieldwork have not decisively upset the long-held view that the settlement of the Americas occurred in the very latest Pleistocene, as marked in North America by the Clovis archaeological horizon at about 11,200 years ago, and by a variety of contemporaneous South American industries. Yet there are several sites that may prove to be older, among them Pedra Furada, in the thorn forest of northeastern Brazil, a large and remarkable rock-shelter, whose Pleistocene deposits have been interpreted as containing clear evidence of human occupation.This paper offers a considered view of Pedra Furada from three archaeologists with a wide range of experiences in sites of all ages in the Americas and elsewhere, but who also share a special interest and expertise in the issues Pedra Furada has raised: Meltzer from long study of the peopling of the Americas and the frame of thinking within which we address that issue (Meltzer 1993a; 1993b); Adovasio from his intensive excavations and analysis of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania, the prime North American pre-Clovis candidate (Adovasio et al. 1990; Donahue & Adovasio 1990); and Dillehay from his work at the Monte Verde site in Chile, a site in which extraordinary preservation has produced a rich archaeological record with radiocarbon ages in excess of 12,500 years b.p. (Dillehay 1989a; in press). At the invitation of the Pedra Furada team, the three travelled to Brazil last December to participate in an international conference on the peopling of the Americas, and see first-hand the evidence from Pedra Furada.

New Evidence for the Antiquity of Man in North America Deduced from Aspartic Acid Racemization

Science ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 184 (4138) ◽  
pp. 791-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Bada ◽  
R. A. Schroeder ◽  
G. F. Carter
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Aspartic Acid Racemization ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals Late Pleistocene horse and camel hunting at the southern margin of the ice-free corridor: Reassessing the age of Wally’s Beach, Canada

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (14) ◽  
pp. 4263-4267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Waters ◽  
Thomas W. Stafford ◽  
Brian Kooyman ◽  
L. V. Hills
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Southern Margin ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
Lithic Artifacts ◽  
Chronological Clustering ◽  
Beach Site

The only certain evidence for prehistoric human hunting of horse and camel in North America occurs at the Wally’s Beach site, Canada. Here, the butchered remains of seven horses and one camel are associated with 29 nondiagnostic lithic artifacts. Twenty-seven new radiocarbon ages on the bones of these animals revise the age of these kill and butchering localities to 13,300 calibrated y B.P. The tight chronological clustering of the eight kill localities at Wally’s Beach indicates these animals were killed over a short period. Human hunting of horse and camel in Canada, coupled with mammoth, mastodon, sloth, and gomphothere hunting documented at other sites from 14,800–12,700 calibrated y B.P., show that 6 of the 36 genera of megafauna that went extinct by approximately 12,700 calibrated y B.P. were hunted by humans. This study shows the importance of accurate geochronology, without which significant discoveries will go unrecognized and the empirical data used to build models explaining the peopling of the Americas and Pleistocene extinctions will be in error.

186. New Evidence Concerning Early Man in North America

Man ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Alan Lyle Bryan
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Evidence

Solutrean Settlement of North America? A Review of Reality

2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Guy Straus
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Southern France ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
The Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
Eastern Seaboard ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Last Glacial

AbstractThe Solutrean techno-complex of southern France and the Iberian Peninsula is an impossible candidate as the “source” for either pre-Clovis or Clovis traditions in North America. Primarily this is because the Solutrean ended ca. 16,500-18,000 B.P. (at least 5,000 years before Clovis appeared) and was separated from the U.S. eastern seaboard by 5,000 km of ocean. In addition, there are major differences between the Solutrean and Clovis (and even more between it and “pre-Clovis”) in terms of the composition of lithic and osseous technologies and with regard to evidence of artistic activity. Nor is there any evidence that Solutrean people had navigation, deep-sea fishing, or marine mammal hunting capacities which could have made a transatlantic crossing even conceivable. Furthermore, there is no evidence that people lived above about 48° N latitude in western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum, making a “jumping-off” point from the (then largely glaciated) area of the current British Isles unlikely. The peopling of the Americas, even if the result of several “migrations,” was from Asia.

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