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

Sea level fingerprinting of the Bering Strait flooding history detects the source of the Younger Dryas climate event

(2020) T. Pico et al.   Science Advances

Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes

(2020) Anders Bergström et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum

(2020) Ciprian F. Ardelean et al.   NATURE

Biomarkers reveal abrupt switches in hydroclimate during the last glacial in southern California

(2019) Sarah J. Feakins et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago

(2019) Loren G. Davis et al.   SCIENCE

The configuration of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the Quaternary

(2019) Christine L. Batchelor et al.   Nature Communications

Warm and cold wet states in the western United States during the Pliocene–Pleistocene

(2018) Daniel E. Ibarra et al.   GEOLOGY

A late Wisconsin (32-10k cal a BP) history of pluvials, droughts and vegetation in the Pacific south-west United States (Lake Elsinore, CA)

(2018) M. E. Kirby et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Reassessing the chronology of the archaeological site of Anzick

(2018) Lorena Becerra-Valdivia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New protocol for compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of archaeological bones

(2018) Thibaut Deviese et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion

(2018) C. L. Scheib et al.   SCIENCE

Deglaciation of the Pacific coastal corridor directly preceded the human colonization of the Americas

(2018) Alia J. Lesnek et al.   Science Advances

Evidence of an early projectile point technology in North America at the Gault Site, Texas, USA

(2018) Thomas J. Williams et al.   Science Advances

Retreat of the western Cordilleran Ice Sheet margin during the last deglaciation

(2018) C. M. Darvill et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

(2018) J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar et al.   NATURE

Increasing accuracy for the radiocarbon dating of sites occupied by the first Americans

(2018) Thibaut Devièse et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas

(2018) Ben A. Potter et al.   Science Advances

Y Chromosome Sequences Reveal a Short Beringian Standstill, Rapid Expansion, and early Population structure of Native American Founders

(2018) Thomaz Pinotti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early human dispersals within the Americas

(2018) J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar et al.   SCIENCE

Pre-Clovis projectile points at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas—Implications for the Late Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

(2018) Michael R. Waters et al.   Science Advances

Bigger kill than chill: The uneven roles of humans and climate on late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

(2017) Bernardo B.A. Araujo et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Methods for Summarizing Radiocarbon Datasets

(2017) Christopher Bronk Ramsey   RADIOCARBON

Finding the first Americans

(2017) Todd J. Braje et al.   SCIENCE

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments

(2017) Viviane Slon et al.   SCIENCE

Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor

(2016) Mikkel W. Pedersen et al.   NATURE

Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada

(2016) Peter D. Heintzman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global ice volume during MIS 3 inferred from a sea-level analysis of sedimentary core records in the Yellow River Delta

(2016) T. Pico et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Constraining the Late Pleistocene history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet by dating the Missinaibi Formation, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

(2016) April S. Dalton et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas

(2016) B. Llamas et al.   Science Advances

Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

(2016) Christopher Bronk Ramsey   RADIOCARBON

Dealing with Outliers and Offsets in Radiocarbon Dating

(2016) Christopher Bronk Ramsey   RADIOCARBON

Revisiting Paleoindian exploitation of extinct North American mammals

(2015) Donald K. Grayson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Test of Martin’s overkill hypothesis using radiocarbon dates on extinct megafauna

(2015) Todd A. Surovell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2015) Michael R. Waters et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The RESET tephra database and associated analytical tools

(2015) Christopher Bronk Ramsey et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

(2015) M. Raghavan et al.   SCIENCE

Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover

(2015) A. Cooper et al.   SCIENCE

Deglacial ocean warming and marine margin retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in the North Pacific Ocean

(2014) M.A. Taylor et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

(2014) Morten Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy

(2014) Sune O. Rasmussen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis

(2013) Metin I. Eren et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A Late Pleistocene/early Holocene archaeological 14C database for South America and the Isthmus of Panama: Palaeoenvironmental contexts and demographic interpretations

(2013) Lucas Bueno et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

(2013) Paula J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Reconstructing Native American population history

(2012) David Reich et al.   NATURE

Quantitative global analysis of the role of climate and people in explaining late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

(2012) G. W. Prescott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Out of the Tropics: The Pacific, Great Basin Lakes, and Late Pleistocene Water Cycle in the Western United States

(2012) M. Lyle et al.   SCIENCE

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

From Asia to the Americas by boat? Paleogeography, paleoecology, and stemmed points of the northwest Pacific

(2011) Jon M. Erlandson et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Climate, environment, and humans in North America’s Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900–11,600 calendar years ago

(2011) Ted Goebel et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Last Glacial Maximum

(2009) P. U. Clark et al.   SCIENCE

DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America

(2008) M. T. P. Gilbert et al.   SCIENCE