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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Peopling of the Americas"”.
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Speleothem-Based Hydroclimate Reconstruction of Northeastern Mexico Across the Last Deglaciation
… more frequent drought conditions across Northeastern Mexico, but regional paleoclimate data is necessary to inform the spatial extent and severity of these droughts. In this thesis, we present a centennial-scale resolution record of Northeastern Mexico hydroclimate spanning 21.77 to 11.56 ka …
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Technology, Serial Specialists, and Younger Dryas Cold Adaptation in the Northern Great Basin of North America
In this dissertation, I evaluate the ways in which hunter-gatherer peoples of the northern Great Basin (NGB) mitigated cold stress and environmental change during the Younger Dryas (12,900 – 11,700 calibrated years before present [cal BP]) through analyses of perishable and lithic technological …
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Paleogenomics in the Americas: demography, adaptations, and resilience
This work covers the evolutionary history of an indigenous population from the Americas through the lens of ancient DNA. In recent years, major advances in DNA sequencing have allowed for the utilization of ancient DNA on a grand scale. We now have the ability to examine the whole genomes of …