Topic: Peopling of the Americas

Paper details:

Discuss, evaluate, and contrast the evidence of migration to the Americas presented in Gibbons 2012 and Balter 2013 with information provided in one (or more) of the following articles: Erlandson et al. 2011, “Paleolithic seafaring, maritime technologies, and coastal foraging on California’s Channel Islands”; O’Connor et al. 2011, “Pelagic fishing at 42,000 years before the present and the maritime skills of modern humans”; Pringle 2014, “Welcome to Beringia”; Raghavan et al 2014, “The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic.