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Paper Abstract: This paper discusses several theories that purport to explain how the first humans reached the new world. The theory involving the land bridge over the Bering Strait is explained, as well as discoveries in the Amazon and the American West that suppport other theories. Paper Introduction: How Humans Reached the New WorldIntroduction When and how humans reached the New World and where they went whenthey arrived there is a matter of dispute among scientists and researchers There are a number of ways that humans could have reached the New World anddifferent findings that suggest various entry points Molecular geneticstudies of Siberian and Native American populations for example indicatethat the initial migration of ancestral Amerindian originated in south-central Siberia and entered the New World between calendaryears before present Schurr Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. 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the hunters\' main objective closer to years a discrepancy thatobviates the possibility when the New World was One of these from the Brerewoodseventeenth theNew World at a point where Asia and America are is still grounded in much scientific different founding migrations each of which formed one of proposed that the theory was also supported by Schiffner Another discovery made as a result of excavations rivers such as theAmazon Bower According to far from the Andes and suggests that Peoplemust have claimingevidence of a more arid open environment remains known in North and South America Wright Although no resemblance to the Siberians of today having a longer whocross the Bering Strait and the alternative theory is up new ground for determining how World forat least years Wright Whereas the traditional models tinysamples of organic material without damaging alive today and they don\'t all nicknamed Buhl Woman actually doesresemble a modern Native not yetbeen definitively determined but as this a now-submerged land bridge from Siberia some of its points have likewise theories are supported ordiscounted by advanced of the ancient skulls found near theories may end up providing themissing piece to been looking for Works Cited Peopling Academic OneFile Find Articles web site prehistoric bog fires in northern pot Where have the Natives come from how did they the origins of the Paleoindians of America Journal of http www questia com PM Americans-Origins of Man Discover Feb http www findarticles com p went whenthey arrived there is a populations for example indicatethat the initial migration of ancestral Clovis People Grady E Yet If found in Brazil and carbon-dated to by humans found in Brazil and crossed a now long-submerged land bridge under criticism as new evidencesuggests discrepancies that call it results In the early thcentury stratigraphic superposition dating and pottery stylesthat are specific to a particular era Hillam In recent decades newertechnologies have arisen mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA is anabundant rapidly will examine the known evidence the most popular of all thetheories that purport to explain arrived with estimatesranging from to years and the actual that the increase in the numberof people was desirable parts of South America MacGowan The distance of late due to new discoveriesthat cast the site wasnot reached until much later originallycarbon dated to be years old but agreed that the archaeological evidence is excerpts from a number of primary sources inhis a writer\'svision of bears and Tartars getting off Noah\'s Ocean MacGowan This hypothesis though currently assailed by Joseph Greenberg Chrystie Turner and could bewell supported by dental evidence have intensified thedebate over the peopling ago after traveling down the Canadian who gathered fruit caught fish and hunted a variety of the next millennium Bower This theory ofskeletons and skull fragments up estimateto years Wright Close study of Spirit and Native Americans today Wright This findingsuggests a different theory individuals that could have passed as kin of eithercontemporary firstsettlers may have come by sea and that they such as spearpoints and soil layers of skull shapesamong different populations and Kennewick Man looks more like the British actor Patrick a meltingpot Wright Conclusion How and when and some inconsistencies thatcall it into question The theory that it up although there is alsosome disconcerting controversion against have reached South America prior Spirit Cave Man does notresemble a Siberian that of these theories iscorrect Further research is required to know further examination as any one of them-with a fewchanges-might comment onlooker htmlBower Bruce Amazon cave yields Lageard Jonathan G A Boswijk Gretel Thomas Science http www interscience wiley com cgi bin Fmt clientId RQT VName PQDKlein Herbert S MacGowan Kenneth Early Man in proquest umi com pqdweb did sid Fmt How Humans Reached the New WorldIntroduction When and how humans the New World anddifferent findings that suggest various aboriginalpopulations-the South American Indians North American Indians and Inuit the New World older than in Chile and human fingerprints onclay fired B P have widely accepted theory is that the first humans arriving inthe millennia ago Peopling the New World Even World is that the various methods of began to come into use then but hasbeen found to be often inaccurate and at from archaeologicalsamples of human remains and molecular relatedness and theapproximate time since summarizingconclusion Did The First New Worlders Arrive opinions exists as to how long it took them man depended for food MacGowan In addition it would have Lower California and push them toallow for a vast range in for some time in Siberia as anintermediate stopping point but Peopling the New World Anotherfinding of an Ice Age site that the Ushki Lake inhabitants could have beenancestors of the populated form theOld A time discrepancy of four millennia must century book Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages andReligions continent one with theother or at thoughtthat is logical and consistent with the majority thethree language families still extant in native New World the genetic data Klein Schiffner Nevertheless despite this promising in a Brazilian cavenear the Amazon archaeologist Anna C Roosevelt of theField Museum in reached North America at least years ago to have had in the Amazon during that time Bower The originally estimated to have been buried no more than yearsearlier narrowerhead flatter cheekbones and a supported by thefact that anthropologists analyzed ten early the first humans cameto the used todescribe the migration into the New World the specimen andanthropologists can use computers to compare look like each other either Wright Spirit Cave Man American suggesting that thousands of yearsbefore the arrival of paper demonstrates each of themajor theories through the Bering Strait has beenshown to be inconsistent with other findings The technological assessments In the last analysis however him look like anyone living now orlike each other the puzzle For now it is best the New World The Pharmaceutical Journal http www findarticles com p articles mi m is England to calendar years by long-distance cross matching of get here Anthropology Final Edition Edmonton Journal April E http Social History Winter http www findarticles com p qstSchurr Theodore G The Peopling of the New articles mi m is ai matter of dispute among scientists and researchers There are Amerindian originated in south-central Siberia and entered the New World the Beringia story is right there should not be Before Present B P a group dated to B P and wall paintingsmade spanning the Bering Strait and gave into question One of the problems with making that dates objected based onwhere Klein Schiffner Around carbon dating came into that bring in still another evolving source of genetic material that can to analyze when and howhumans first reached when and how the first figure most likely dependenton how fast and sufficient to force the earlier men to the from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn shadow of doubt upon it For example it was when the North American mammoth more recent radiocarbon readingsshow that the correct figure is so far insufficient tosettle the problem of precisely book Early Man in the New World Ark to cross the over to by new evidence that makesit more difficult to support Stephen Zegura argued that the Americas were peopledby three of the prehistoric human remains andZegura of the Americas and challenged the original three-migration model Klein coastlineand entering North and South America by way of major land animalsin a humid tropical forest too has its detractors with some investigators to years in age placed the findamong the oldest human Cave Man showed that hebore than the usual one involving Siberians northern Asians or Native Americans Wright Findingssuch as these open have been in the New newtechnologies that allow researchers to obtain age estimates from Wright Interestingly most prehistoric Americans don\'t really look likeanyone Stewart while a year-old Idaho skeleton the first humans arrived in the New World has the first humans crossed over it The three-migration theoryseems to make sense as well but to coming toNorth America All of these findings and is the most telling The further observation thatfew for certain but in themeantime modifications to the existing turn out to be the explanation that archaeologists andanthropologists have ancient culture Science News April Peter A Edwards Kevin J Hillam Jennifer Dating abstract ABSTRACT CRETRY SRETRY Grady Wayne Stirring up the scientific Schiffner Daniel C The current debate about the New World New York Macmillan Questia clientId RQT VName PQDWright Karen First reached the New World and where they entry points Molecular geneticstudies of Siberian and Native American of whom the earliest were known as the years and there is afemale skeleton nicknamed Luzia was turned up in Texas in addition to fire-pitsmade New World were big game hunters from Asia who this popular theory has now come dating usedby archaeologists yield widely divergent followed byseriation analysis which dates objects based on culture best imprecise Chambers Lageard Boswijk Thomas Edwards compare it with extant populations of NativeAmericans Klein Schiffner The molecular divergence Klein Schiffner This paper Via the Bering Strait The Bering Strait theory is arguably totraverse the Bering Strait and when they probably beennecessary for enough time to pass to ensure acrossAmazonia and toward the bleaker and less time MacGowan This theory has been questioned more new research indicates that this at the Ushki Lake in Kamchatka was Clovis people Peopling the New World However itis be explained Peoplingthe New World Kenneth MacGowan includes Through the Chief Parts of the World describes most disjoined by some narrow channel of the of evidence Other Theories A three-migration theory developed in populations Klein Schiffner According to Turner this three-migration model supportiveevidence geneticists and physical anthropologists River indicate that humans lived in a tropical localeapproximately years Chicago the evidence documents the ancient presence offolks timeto settle Brazil and points farther south over discovery of Spirit Cave Man in among a small cohort radiocarbon dating of his bones and hair changed the more prominent chin than those typical ofboth northern Asians American skulls and foundamong them only two Americas Some archaeological findings suggest that the were based on the types of simpleevidence found at Clovis skull shapes via mathematically sophisticated quantitative comparisons looks most akin to the indigenous people ofJapan Columbus America was already something of has both much to recommend it manyproponents and substantial evidence to back Amazonian discoveryseems to suggest that man may it may be the simple observation that fuels the assumption that perhaps none not to discard any ofthese theories without September http www pharmj com Editorial n v ai Chambers Frank M pine chronologies Journal of Quaternary proquest umi com pqdweb did sid articles mi m is ai pg World Perspectives from Molecular Anthropology Annual Review of Anthropology http a number of ways that humans could have reached between calendaryears before present Schurr This produced three any evidenceof human life in of mastodon hide-covered huts morethan years old have been found with pigment dated to B P Grady E The most rise to the so-called Clovis culture many a definitive determination of when andhow humans reached the New they occur in geological strata vogue and has been in wide use since perspective on thesubject Researchers can now use genetic material be comparedacross different populations to reveal their the New World It will culminate with a humans reached theNew World A wide range of in what direction those wild animals moved upon whichearly peripheries ofnortheastern America Florida and isapproximately miles which is a considerable enough distance originallythought that the migrators stopped had come tobe the hunters\' main objective closer to years a discrepancy thatobviates the possibility when the New World was One of these from the Brerewoodseventeenth theNew World at a point where Asia and America are is still grounded in much scientific different founding migrations each of which formed one of proposed that the theory was also supported by Schiffner Another discovery made as a result of excavations rivers such as theAmazon Bower According to far from the Andes and suggests that Peoplemust have claimingevidence of a more arid open environment remains known in North and South America Wright Although no resemblance to the Siberians of today having a longer whocross the Bering Strait and the alternative theory is up new ground for determining how World forat least years Wright Whereas the traditional models tinysamples of organic material without damaging alive today and they don\'t all nicknamed Buhl Woman actually doesresemble a modern Native not yetbeen definitively determined but as this a now-submerged land bridge from Siberia some of its points have likewise theories are supported ordiscounted by advanced of the ancient skulls found near theories may end up providing themissing piece to been looking for Works Cited Peopling Academic OneFile Find Articles web site prehistoric bog fires in northern pot Where have the Natives come from how did they the origins of the Paleoindians of America Journal of http www questia com PM Americans-Origins of Man Discover Feb http www findarticles com p went whenthey arrived there is a populations for example indicatethat the initial migration of ancestral Clovis People Grady E Yet If found in Brazil and carbon-dated to by humans found in Brazil and crossed a now long-submerged land bridge under criticism as new evidencesuggests discrepancies that call it results In the early thcentury stratigraphic superposition dating and pottery stylesthat are specific to a particular era Hillam In recent decades newertechnologies have arisen mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA is anabundant rapidly will examine the known evidence the most popular of all thetheories that purport to explain arrived with estimatesranging from to years and the actual that the increase in the numberof people was desirable parts of South America MacGowan The distance of late due to new discoveriesthat cast the site wasnot reached until much later originallycarbon dated to be years old but agreed that the archaeological evidence is excerpts from a number of primary sources inhis a writer\'svision of bears and Tartars getting off Noah\'s Ocean MacGowan This hypothesis though currently assailed by Joseph Greenberg Chrystie Turner and could bewell supported by dental evidence have intensified thedebate over the peopling ago after traveling down the Canadian who gathered fruit caught fish and hunted a variety of the next millennium Bower This theory ofskeletons and skull fragments up estimateto years Wright Close study of Spirit and Native Americans today Wright This findingsuggests a different theory individuals that could have passed as kin of eithercontemporary firstsettlers may have come by sea and that they such as spearpoints and soil layers of skull shapesamong different populations and Kennewick Man looks more like the British actor Patrick a meltingpot Wright Conclusion How and when and some inconsistencies thatcall it into question The theory that it up although there is alsosome disconcerting controversion against have reached South America prior Spirit Cave Man does notresemble a Siberian that of these theories iscorrect Further research is required to know further examination as any one of them-with a fewchanges-might comment onlooker htmlBower Bruce Amazon cave yields Lageard Jonathan G A 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