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NYT Times book review: A Genetic History of the Americas[edit]

Just noting a relevant book review from today's NY Times: "Did the First Americans Arrive via Land Bridge? This Geneticist Says No". nytimes.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:44, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just a rewrite of her 2010 book...no new info.--Moxy-

20:31, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possible evidence of clovis settlement in southwestern oklahoma.[edit]

I would really like to know how to really talk to someone about some things that I've seen and documented around my area. I got what I believe to be mounds of evidence that may support the fact that there was a clovis people type settlement right here in southwestern oklahoma. 2600:387:C:5534:0:0:0:8 (talk) 04:56, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Human paleoecological integration in subarctic eastern Beringia

The Ground Sloth, Megalonyx, from Pleistocene Deposits of the Old Crow Basin, Yukon, Canada)

American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change)

Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska)

New insights into Eastern Beringian mortuary behavior: A terminal Pleistocene double infant burial at Upward Sun River

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

Pleistocene megafauna from eastern Beringia: Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope and radiocarbon records

Isotopic tracking of large carnivore palaeoecology in the mammoth steppe

Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiplesynchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge

Paleoecology and ecomorphology of the giant short-faced bear in Eastern Beringia

Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA

Dynamics of Pleistocene Population Extinctions in Beringian Brown Bears

Diet and Co-ecology of Pleistocene Short-Faced Bears and Brown Bears in Eastern Beringia

On the association of giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) in late Pleistocene North America

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

Stable isotopes (13C, 15N) and paleodiet of the giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus)

Life and extinction of megafauna in the ice-age Arctic

Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: extinction, invasion, survival

Middle Pleistocene (MIS 7) to Holocene fossil insect assemblages from the Old Crow basin, northern Yukon, Canada

The Yukagir Bison: The exterior morphology of a complete frozen mummy of the extinct steppe bison, Bison priscus from the early Holocene of northern Yakutia, Russia

Diet and habitat of the saiga antelope during the late Quaternary using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios

SuperTah (talk) 15:02, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Migration.[edit]

I am interested in the movement of animals such as early camels across this land bridge ? 2A00:23C8:4980:BB01:5FF:C2F5:DA8D:6EE8 (talk) 19:32, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

White Sands NM human footprint dating re-opens Beringia crossing theory[edit]

The dating of human footprints found in White Sands NM desert (Oct 2023) puts into question aspects of the Beringia Crossing theory, which asserts a crossable land bridge existed between 16000-9000 BP. The footprints were dated by 2 independent methods (quartz sunlight aging, and pollen analysis) that agree the footprints were laid down between 23000 and 21000 BP.

Someone with expertise on this might want to interject a note of caution into this article's true status as unproven theory subject to ongoing discoveries. Pbierre (talk) 12:49, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]