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Science Journals SCIENCE ADVANCES | REVIEW ANTHROPOLOGY Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; Current evidence allows multiple models for the exclusive licensee American Association peopling of the Americas for the Advancement Ben A. Potter1*, James F. Baichtal2, Alwynne B. Beaudoin3, Lars Fehren-Schmitz4, of Science. No claim to 5 5 1 6 7 original U.S. Government C. Vance Haynes , Vance T. Holliday , Charles E. Holmes , John W. Ives , Robert L. Kelly , Works. Distributed 8 9 10 11,12,13 1,14 Bastien Llamas , Ripan S. Malhi , D. Shane Miller , David Reich , Joshua D. Reuther , under a Creative 15 7 Stephan Schiffels , Todd A. Surovell Commons Attribution NonCommercial Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of the Americas has License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal migration, dependent on high marine pro- ductivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Clovis, the earliest widespread cul- tural manifestation south of the glacial ice. Speculations on maritime adaptations and typological links (stemmed points) across thousands of kilometers have also been advanced. A review of the current genetic, archeological, and paleoecological evidence indicates that ancestral Native American population expansion occurred after 16,000 years ago, consistent with the archeological record, particularly with the earliest securely dated sites after Downloaded from ~15,000 years ago. These data are largely consistent with either an inland (ice-free corridor) or Pacific coastal routes (or both), but neither can be rejected at present. Systematic archeological and paleoecological investiga- tions, informed by geomorphology, are required to test each hypothesis. INTRODUCTION More nuanced consideration of the proposed alternatives can also http://advances.sciencemag.org/ Investigation of the peopling of the Americas has generated decades be found (10–12). Here, we evaluate the claims made in (1) and of scholarly studies, increasingly illuminated by paleoecological and elsewhere with respect to the current genetic, archeological, and particularly paleogenetic research. There are currently several models paleoecological data and identify model constraints. We also sug- of the peopling process differing with respect to timing, routes, and gest avenues of further research to refine models of the peopling of affiliation with modern (and ancient) populations in Asia and the the Americas. Due to multiple dating techniques presented in this Americas (Fig. 1). One perspective that has become prominent in paper, we use years ago for calibrated radiocarbon dates, OSL and the last decade is of an early entry (~25,000 to 15,000 years ago) into cosmogenic dates, and genetic age estimates. All of these are rough- the Americas via a Pacific coastal migration. This perspective fur- ly comparable. ther implies ecological adaptations (for example, the kelp highway hypothesis) and, more recently, typological relationships (stemmed on January 21, 2020 points) (1–5). We believe that this perspective, although commonly GENETIC AND ARCHEOLOGICAL CONGRUENCE disseminated in the popular press (6–8), is a prematurely narrow Genetic studies provide independent information on the timing and interpretation of current evidence, which yields far less certainty. nature of Native American ancestral divergence from northeast Asian Some proponents (1) also assert that there is near-complete agree- populations, genetic isolation, and expansion into the Americas. ment among archeologists on these issues, but the most recent relevant The most recent comprehensive ancient mitogenomic analysis (13) survey (9) shows that archeologists remain divided, with substan- indicates that Native American ancestors diverged from Siberian tial numbers thinking migrants used both interior and coastal routes, populations between 24,900 and 18,400 years ago with population as well as strong skepticism for several proposed pre-Clovis sites. expansion associated with female lineage diversification sometime between ~16,000 to 13,000 years ago. These results are consistent with a large-scale genomic study based on mostly modern Native 1Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, American and Siberian data (14). We should be careful to insist on USA. 2Tongass National Forest, U.S. Forest Service, Thorne Bay, AK 99919, USA. confidence intervals rather than relying on mean or median esti- 3Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 0G2, Canada. 4UCSC Paleogenomics Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa mates, because the former more accurately reflect the precision of Cruz, CA 95064, USA. 5School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences, the data. This approach also results in consistency with a wider range University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. 6Institute of Prairie Archaeology, Uni- of colonization models rather than narrowly limiting the options. 7 versity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada. Department of Anthropology, Models of diversification should encompass migration from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. 8Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Environment Institute, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, geographic location of the ancestral Native American population, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 9Department of Anthropology and Carl R. Woese which is currently unknown, but probably includes expansion into 10 Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Department northeastern Siberia and Beringia. As a possible working hypothe- of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39759, USA. 11Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Bost on, MA 02115, USA. sis, if Native American ancestors were situated in southern Siberia 12Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 20,000 years ago, then the post–16,000-year expansion must include 13Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, migration into northeast Asia. MA 02142, USA. 14Archaeology Department, University of Alaska Museum of the 15 Genetic analyses dependent on data from modern populations do North, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany. not bear directly on the geographic locations of the divergence events *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] (13). For instance, the data used to generate the Beringian Incubation Potter et al., Sci. Adv. 2018; 4 : eaat5473 8 August 2018 1 of 8 SCIENCE ADVANCES | REVIEW Archeological sites, >13 ka Archeological sites, 13–10 ka Geological/biological samples, 15.7 – 13.3 ka, indicating ice-free and/or vegetated conditions Glacial ice limits (55) 13.4 ka 14.0 ka 15.0 ka Glacial ice at 14.8 ka Archeological sites, (48) post 8 ka Downloaded from Fig. 1. Northwest North America with archeological sites older than 10,000 calibrated years before the present (Supplementary Materials) and proposed colo- nization routes: IFC and NPC. Glacial ice extent (white) from (48), and archeological site and geological sample locations summarized in (12, 78). Laurentide Ice Sheet limits (dotted lines) from (55). ka, thousand years; IFC, ice-free corridor; NPC, North Pacific coast. http://advances.sciencemag.org/ Model only require that Native American ancestors were geographi- The locations of ancestral Native Americans between ~20,000 and cally isolated from wherever the East Asian/Siberian ancestors in- 15,000 years ago remain unknown, but two scenarios have been habited during the time of isolation (15). The genetic data do not proposed (19). Scenario 1 posits that the split of Ancient Beringians require that this isolation occurred in central or eastern Beringia— and other Native Americans occurred in northeast Asia/Siberia, it could range across a vast area, from Cis-Baikal to Hokkaido. So while scenario 2 posits that this split occurred in eastern Beringia far, complete nuclear genomes from ancient samples produced in (Alaska). Current archeological and paleoecological data support recent years (16–18) are not able either to substantially narrow the scenario 1. There is no secure evidence of ~20,000-year-old American divergence estimate or to clarify spatial routes of the initial peopling. sites, while there is abundant evidence of human occupation in A recent analysis of the 11,500-year-old Upward Sun River 1 ge- northeast Asia (for example, southern Siberia, Amur basin, Primor’ye, nome (19) suggests that Native Americans descend from a single and Japanese archipelago) (fig. S1) (23). The LGM is regionally on January 21, 2020 population that separated from East Asians by 26,100 to 23,900 characterized by very cold and arid conditions with evidence for years ago, with two deep branches: an Ancient Beringian popula- depopulation of north Asia and no evidence throughout Eurasia for tion that split off ~22,000 to 18,000 years ago and a second branch northward expansions of humans (24, 25). Previous genetic models that split into northern and southern lineages ~17,500 to 14,600 of Native American demography indicate a bottleneck during this years ago (19). Earlier gene flow between ancestral Native Americans period, with expansion only after 16,000 to 13,000 years ago (13, 26). and Ancient North Eurasians (ANEs)
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