Peopling of the Americas

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.