Human Occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ∼ 37,000 Years Ago

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New Mexico mammoths among best evidence for early

humans in North America by  University of Texas at Austin

 

The paper is:

 

Rowe, T.B., Stafford Jr, T.W., Fisher, D.C., Enghild, J.J., Quigg, 

J.M., Ketcham, R.A., Sagebiel, J.C., Hanna, R. and Colbert,

M.W., 2022. Human Occupation of the North American

Colorado Plateau∼ 37,000 Years Ago. Frontiers in Ecology

and Evolution, no. 534. (open access paper)

 

Formation and Taphonomy of Quaternary Fossil Accumulations:

Advances and New Perspectives

 

Yours,

Paul H.

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[DPS Ammonite]

One of the references listed in the Rowe paper suggests, based on human DNA, that humans were in the Americas around 56k years ago.

 

Human dispersal may have occurred via Europe along Greenland and east coast of North America

 

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/science.abi8264 (1).pdf

 

Wohns AW, Wong Y, Jeffery B, Akbari A, Mallick S, Pinhasi R, Patterson N, Reich D, Kelleher J, McVean G. A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. Science. 2022 Feb 25;375(6583):eabi8264. doi: 10.1126/science.abi8264. Epub 2022 Feb 25. PMID: 35201891.

 

 

Edited August 2, 2022 by DPS Ammonite