https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/prehistoric-america-atlantis/619819/
A rather poetic summary of the peopling of the Americas.
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-meat-heavy-diets-restricted-hunter-gatherer-population.html
Not a surprise but good to know.
Hot off the press – all the usual caveats, but if it holds up this is very exciting.
“Here, we present evidence from excavated surfaces in White Sands National Park (New Mexico, United States), where multiple in situ human footprints are stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers that yield calibrated radiocarbon ages between ~23 and 21 thousand years ago.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7586