Are we looking to discover the first Americans or the first successful Americans?

Author(s): Darrin Lowery

Year: 2016

Summary

With respect to the peopling of the New World, recent research has focused on linking genetics with the archaeological record. Given historical analogies, there were probably multiple accidental or intentional settlement attempts or migrations into the Americas, which ultimately failed. These failures would have left an archaeological record, but no "legacy" genetic signature among the successful New World settlers. The lecture will address this issue based on recent research at several possible archaeological sites in the Chesapeake Bay region.

Cite this Record

Are we looking to discover the first Americans or the first successful Americans?. Darrin Lowery. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404132)

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Keywords

General
Geoarchaeology and Genetics • Middle Atlantic Prehistory • Paleoindians/Pre-Clovis

Geographic Keywords
North America - Mid-Atlantic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -84.067; min lat: 36.031 ; max long: -72.026; max lat: 43.325 ;