Thesis
A chronometric investigation of the initial peopling of the Americas
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The initial peopling of the American continent marks a major event in the expansion of humans across the planet. For most of the 20th century, it was believed that a group of big-game hunters initially entered North America approximately 13,500 years ago, through the now flooded land bridge of Beringia, between modern day Siberia and Alaska. Once across, they would have moved southward through an ice-free corridor formed between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets, which b...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
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2020-02-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Valdivia, L
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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