1979/01/01 by K. R. Fladmark · 7 citations
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Health Professions · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Indigenous Studies and Ecology
paper · doi:10.2307/279189
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This paper reviews the relative feasibility of interior and coastal routes for early man entering southern North America from Beringia during the late Pleistocene. Paleoenvironmental and archaeological data suggest that a chain of sea-level refugia around the North Pacific coast could have provided a real alternative to the interior “ice-free” corridor and that maritime cultural adaptations may have been among the first to arrive south of Canada.