Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain

Ben A. Potter; Alwynne B. Beaudoin; C. Vance Haynes; Vance T. Holliday; Charles E. Holmes; John W. Ives; Robert Kelly; Bastien Llamas; Ripan Malhi; Shane Miller; David Reich; Joshua D. Reuther; Stephan Schiffels; Todd Surovell

doi:10.1126/science.aar8233

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Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain

Ben A. Potter1,*,
Alwynne B. Beaudoin2,
C. Vance Haynes3,
Vance T. Holliday3,
Charles E. Holmes1,
John W. Ives4,
Robert Kelly5,
Bastien Llamas6,
Ripan Malhi7,
Shane Miller8,
David Reich9,10,11,
Joshua D. Reuther1,12,
Stephan Schiffels13,
Todd Surovell5

¹Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.
²Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB T5J 0G2, Canada.
³School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
⁴Institute of Prairie Archaeology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
⁵Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
⁶Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Environment Institute, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
⁷Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
⁸Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39759, USA.
⁹Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹⁰Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹¹Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
¹²Archaeology Department, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.
¹³Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.

↵* Corresponding author. Email: bapotter{at}alaska.edu

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Science 16 Mar 2018:
Vol. 359, Issue 6381, pp. 1224-1225
DOI: 10.1126/science.aar8233

Jennifer Sills

1Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

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Ben A. Potter

1Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

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For correspondence: bapotter@alaska.edu

Alwynne B. Beaudoin

2Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB T5J 0G2, Canada.

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C. Vance Haynes

3School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

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Vance T. Holliday

3School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

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Charles E. Holmes

1Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

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John W. Ives

4Institute of Prairie Archaeology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.

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Robert Kelly

5Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.

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Bastien Llamas

6Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Environment Institute, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.

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Ripan Malhi

7Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

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Shane Miller

8Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39759, USA.

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David Reich

9Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

10Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

11Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

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Joshua D. Reuther

1Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

12Archaeology Department, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

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Stephan Schiffels

13Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.

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Todd Surovell

5Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.

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