The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas
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Summary
Current genetic evidence implies dispersal from a single Siberian population toward the Bering Land Bridge no earlier than about 30,000 years ago, then migration from Beringia to the Americas sometime after 16,500 years ago.
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- 2008-03-14
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Keywords
Beringia, Land bridge, Biological dispersal, Pleistocene, Archaeology
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