The Americas, the last continents to be entered by modern humans, were colonized during
the late Pleistocene via a land bridge across what is now the Bering strait. However, the …

Much of the American Arctic was first settled 5,000 years ago, by groups of people known as
Palaeo-Eskimos. They were subsequently joined and largely displaced around 1,000 years …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses have proven to be important tools in understanding human
population dispersals, settlement patterns, interactions between prehistoric populations, and …

Recent scientific developments have drawn renewed attention to the complex relationships
among Indigenous peoples, the scientific community, settler colonial governments, and …

A widely accepted model for the peopling of the Americas postulates a source population in
the Northeast Asian maritime region, which includes northern Japan. The model is based on …

Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable alternative
to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas—one of the first to …

While many studies have highlighted human adaptations to diverse environments worldwide,
genomic studies of natural selection in Indigenous populations in the Americas have been …

Background Although the importance of the human oral microbiome for health and disease
is increasingly recognized, variation in the composition of the oral microbiome across …

Studies of Native American genetic diversity and population history have been transformed
over the last decade by important developments in anthropological genetics. During this time…

Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely
rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple …