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Prehistoric Colonization of Northeastern Siberia and Migration to America: Radiocarbon Evidence1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin*
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041 Russia
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Abstract

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This review of radiocarbon dates from northeastern Siberian Paleolithic sites provides data that can be applied to establishing a chronology of human settlement, and that can provide a rough estimate of the timing of the initial peopling of the New World.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , 1994 , pp. 367 - 376
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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