Talk:Origins of Paleoindians

Todo list
I have added a todo list so that other editors can help start getting this article in shape. &mdash; Ambush Commander (Talk) 16:59, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Merging with Models of Migration?
I don't feel these should be merged, although there is some overlap. This article is a little more in-depth and would make the Models article way too long. It could theoretically go in the Paleo-Indians article, although that's more about their lifestyle, culture and immediate descendants than their origins. Twalls (talk) 18:41, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Monte Verde
It seems odd that it isn't named in the body. 200.90.229.244 (talk) 17:39, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

new paper on "Beringia and the Global Dispersal of Modern Human"
"Beringia and the Global Dispersal of Modern Humans," published in the April issue of the journal Evolutionary Anthropology. The authors examined recent developments in anthropological genetics, archaeology and paleoecology and how these findings inform us about the original migration to the Americas, as well as the human occupation of the former land bridge between Alaska and Siberia, known as "Beringia."Read more at:

Abstract

Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out-of-Africa dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native Americans were thought to represent a small subset of the Eurasian population that migrated to the Western Hemisphere less than 15,000 years ago. Archeological discoveries since 2000 reveal, however, that Homo sapiens occupied the high-latitude region between Northeast Asia and northwest North America (that is, Beringia) before 30,000 years ago and the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The settlement of Beringia now appears to have been part of modern human dispersal in northern Eurasia. A 2007 model, the Beringian Standstill Hypothesis, which is based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in living people, derives Native Americans from a population that occupied Beringia during the LGM. The model suggests a parallel between ancestral Native Americans and modern human populations that retreated to refugia in other parts of the world during the arid LGM. It is supported by evidence of comparatively mild climates and rich biota in south-central Beringia at this time (30,000-15,000 years ago). These and other developments suggest that the settlement of the Americas may be integrated with the global dispersal of modern humans. Doug Weller  talk 15:43, 1 May 2016 (UTC)