The timing and effect of the earliest human arrivals in North America

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作者
Becerra-Valdivia, Lorena [1 ,2 ]
Higham, Thomas [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Oxford, England
[2] Univ New South Wales, Chronos Cycle Facil 14C, SSEAU, Sydney, NSW, Australia
关键词
CORDILLERAN ICE-SHEET; RADIOCARBON CALIBRATION; FREE CORRIDOR; CORE RECORDS; PLEISTOCENE; AGE; CLIMATE; CLOVIS; MARGIN; COLONIZATION;
D O I
10.1038/s41586-020-2491-6
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The peopling of the Americas marks a major expansion of humans across the planet. However, questions regarding the timing and mechanisms of this dispersal remain, and the previously accepted model (termed 'Clovis-first')-suggesting that the first inhabitants of the Americas were linked with the Clovis tradition, a complex marked by distinctive fluted lithic points(1)-has been effectively refuted. Here we analyse chronometric data from 42 North American and Beringian archaeological sites using a Bayesian age modelling approach, and use the resulting chronological framework to elucidate spatiotemporal patterns of human dispersal. We then integrate these patterns with the available genetic and climatic evidence. The data obtained show that humans were probably present before, during and immediately after the Last Glacial Maximum (about 26.5-19 thousand years ago)(2,3)but that more widespread occupation began during a period of abrupt warming, Greenland Interstadial 1 (about 14.7-12.9 thousand years beforead 2000)(4). We also identify the near-synchronous commencement of Beringian, Clovis and Western Stemmed cultural traditions, and an overlap of each with the last dates for the appearance of 18 now-extinct faunal genera. Our analysis suggests that the widespread expansion of humans through North America was a key factor in the extinction of large terrestrial mammals. A Bayesian age model suggests that human dispersal to the Americas probably began before the Last Glacial Maximum, overlapping with the last dates of appearance for several faunal genera.
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