Sarah Polster.  As ice melted in the the Pleistocene 20 to 15 ka, an Ice Free Corridor (IFC) created in central Alberta  Nomadic hunters from Siberia.

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Sarah Polster

 As ice melted in the the Pleistocene 20 to 15 ka, an Ice Free Corridor (IFC) created in central Alberta  Nomadic hunters from Siberia traveled across following mastodon herds  Mega Faunal Overkill hypothesis  This culture traveled 14,000 miles to Tierra del Fuego in SA in 500 years  Geological evidence and archaeological evidence modest at best

 Dated to 11,500 to 11, C BP: these must be the first people in the Americas  Clovis, NM: very unique knife points found. Elaborately fluted  Within aprrox. 200 years, these points found everywhere in Central and North America- so interpreted as Clovis people spread. These knives seen in Venezuela by 10,500 BP  So, did this technology indicate people inhabiting an empty continent or pre- existing populations all discovering new technology more or less simultaneously?  This was excepted for over 50 years, but many of the sites were never dated until recently  Oldest sites in MT, SD, and FL. Youngest in Southwest  No clear movement pattern from the new dates

Genetics, Linguistics, Archaeology, Geology

 All Native Americans (except Inuit) are very closely related to one another  Shovel-shaped incisors  Blood type A is rare, blood type B is not present!  Kennewick Man  Mitochondrial DNA Evidence  Only passed down through mothers  Mutates at a predictable rate, so can ‘measure’ how long groups have been separated .3% every 10,000yrs  Estimated American Indians seperated 22,000 to 29,000 yrs ago  Most American Indians are 1 of 4 groupings of m.DNA  3 from Asia  Last 1, Halpogroup A, not in Siberia at all! Leads to the estimate being 35,000 yrs ago  Also suggest exploring group split up, some went south immediately, some lived on Beregenia and migrated when IFC began to close

 The diversity of Native American languages is too great  Need more than 11,000 years to develop so much complexity  People needed to be in S. America for at least 18,000 yrs to develop

 Earlier and earlier sites keep being found!  Body found on Santa Rosa Island, CA: watercraft of some kind during Clovis  Open water for 30-35km  South American 14 C dates may skew early b/c less initial 14 C in southern hemisphere “Evidence that would clarify the situation remains undiscovered and/or lies beneath the coastal waters of Alaska and the Northwest Coast where it currently is inaccessible; and/or the associations between the radiocarbon dates and the cultural manifestations at the South American sites are in error or, God forbid, people actually were in South America first” -Kunz, M (2011)

Dickinson et al, 2011

 All Pre-Clovis sites intense scrutiny- this is the one that withstands the best  Acceptance partially complicated by Pinochet  “People refused to shake my hand at meetings”  Sea level rise, would have been 100km inland  Was open-air settlement on side of creek surrounded by bogs  60 ft long tent that housed 20 to 30 people  Hearths, animal bones and medicinal herbs inside  Footprints outside!  A separate structure where mastodons butchered  Questions idea of nomadic bands, but crude tools  Possible evidence of 20,000 years before this  4 feet lower!  24 fractured pebbles, some flaked, 4 show polish  3 shallow holes lined with clay and burned wood seeds- radio carbon age of 33,000 BP

 Classic evidence always relied on an IFC between Laurentide and Cordillera  Much of this evidence for the ‘Illinoian’ glaciation was based on relative dating  Using cosmogenic dating, test for its existence  Found that with each glaciation, the IFC migrates west  Migration possible  At LGM, IFC was 1500 km wide  Late Wisconsonian- no IFC!  This unique event could have led to extinctions  Berengia ‘sank’ once sea level rose 50m, approx 11.5 to 10.5 ka  Coprolite containing human DNA in Oregon dated to 14,500 BP  Across Cascades from coast! From Swisher, et al, 2013

By Land  Arrived over Berengia and walked along exposed continental shelf  Evidence for these settlements lost due to sea level rise  This is complicated by the Gulf of California and gap in kelp forests (main food in CA)  Shelf is very narrow in many places  Or along IFC through Alberta  Better constrained dates and evidence for IFC  We have sites in Alaska and south of IFC pre- Clovis. Clovis w/i 200 yrs of the IFC opening  IFC did exist, except during end of Wisconsonian- cause of extinctions? By Sea  Small bands came across the Pacific a la Con Tiki  Southern Asian genetic source  Pollen records show coasts very hospitable to gathering (modern hunter-gatherers)  Coastal environments allow quicker spread because require less specialization  We know people had boats in Clovis  This is purely speculative- no sites ever found because they are underwater  Some site in Queen Charlotte islands in AK

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