The American continents were the last of the continents to be colonized, probably around 15,000 years or so ago. The period of colonization is called 'Paleoindian'.
Pictures only of bone and other beads from the Lindenmeier site, a paleoindian site in Colorado.
A joint Russian-American project on the Paleolithic site of Weasel Cave, in North Ossetia, Russia.
The Arlington Springs site is located on an island in the North Channel Islands off the coast of southern California in the western United States.
A site that discusses the history of the Atlatl dart, the mechanics, and can sell you a replica, too.
Eleven thousand years ago, a small lake near Clovis, New Mexico, was populated with extinct forms of elephant, wolf, bison, and horse, and the people who hunted them.
The site of Capelinha is a Paleoindian site in the Ribeira do Iguape Valley of Sao Paulo state in Brazil, and it is a shell midden with six human burials.
Clovis culture is the name given to the earliest, very well established people in North America.
A Paleoindian site, excavated by Florida State University during the summer of 1998.
Contains tables of contents since 1993, and is working on subject indexes; occasionally complete articles are found here.
The East Wenatchee site, also known as the Richey-Roberts site, is a cache of finished and unfinished Clovis projectile points, found in Washington State.
Eel Point is a paleo-coastal archaeological site located on the central western shore of San Clemente Island, a Channel Island located off the California coast.
Fishtail points are to South America what Clovis points are to North America: associated with the earliest occupations in South America that everybody agrees on.
Early Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer peoples of the North American continent, ca. 11,000 years BP
The Gault site is a stratified multicomponent site with a Late Prehistoric and Archaic midden overlying a hard packed Paleoindian component, located in central Texas.
Located near Yungay, Peru, Guitarrero Cave contains evidence of human occupations beginning at least 10,000 years ago, and perhaps as early as 12,500 years ago.
At the March 1997 Folsom Workshop Conference, six experienced flint knappers show their techniques on making the quintessential PaleoIndian point, the Folsom.
This 9,000 year old human skeleton found in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is currently at the heart of a wide-ranging controversy.
Jason LaBelle, a student at Southern Methodist University, in a paper on South American paleoindian and archaic sites; published in Tony Baker's excellent website.
The Murray Springs site is located in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona, and it is an early Clovis site where buffalo were butchered about 11,000 years ago.
The Nenana Valley of central Alaska is the site of one of the earliest archaeological occupations in the North American continent
A project by Roberta Hall at Oregon State University, searching underwater along the Pacific northwest coastline for pleistocene-aged sites that would support the coastline entrada for people into the new world.
A collection of articles by Georges Pearson of the University of Kansas on his Paleoindian research interests in the New World.
The archaeological site of Pedra Furada, Brazil, is a stratified rockshelter with a very early (and hence contested) date, a Paleoindian occupation, and some ancient cave art dated between 5000 and 11000 years BP
A collection of articles and information on the paleolithic period aimed at the general public, including an interview with Jean Auel. From Don Hitchcock.
The deeply buried, stratified Shawnee Minisink archaeological site is located on the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States.
Although by no means uncontroversial, this projectile point made the newspapers last November.
How the American continents became colonized is a fascinating topic that has been addressed in archaeology for well over a hundred years. Here's a collection of the latest articles about this interesting topic.
A quarterly newsletter on the peopling of the American continent.
An article in the Mammoth Trumpet about a Paleoindian site in Idaho.
A page from the Sundance Archaeological Research Fund at the University of Nevada describing the results of the Joint Russian-American project investigating the set of late Pleistocene sites located in central Kamchatka called Ushki.
SAA paper by Tony Baker on how similar (or dissimilar) Paleoindian projectile points are spatially.
The Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) refers to the early Archaic/late Paleoindian culture who lived in the American western desert lands between 9500 and 10,500 years ago.
