Big Ideas on Big Migration(s): Paleoindian Colonization of the Americas, Revisited

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the mid-1990s, David Anderson was already an accomplished National Park Service (NPS) archaeologist and scholar in the US Southeast and beyond. I was a fresh out of Arkansas MA with a Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data tape from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and some big ideas on the peopling of the Americas that meshed well with Dave’s own. When I reached out to Dave for a copy of his growing fluted-point database, the precursor of the Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA), a collaboration was born that would lead to our colonization of the Americas paper in “American Antiquity” (2000) and many others. That publication remains one of the most cited Paleoamerican archaeology papers today and has held up remarkably well over the decades. This paper revisits that popular work and updates the most probable East Asian cultural hearths, timing, and routes of Paleoamerican migration(s) of the late Pleistocene.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• *SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38706.0