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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
What route did people take when they first colonized the Americas? Over the years, archaeologists have engaged in heated debates about the first peopling of the Americas. Traditionally, it was thought that big game hunters (Clovis people) entered America from Asia via Beringia and the ice-free corridor (a gap in the western and eastern Canadian ice sheets) around 13,000 BP. Over the past few decades, new sites, new dates, and new artefacts have challenged this hypothesis, suggesting that people were in the Americas for thousands of years before Clovis and may have taken a different route. The purpose of your essay is to take a position and provide evidence for the route people used when first migrating into the Americas. Your essay must focus in particular on archaeological aspects of this question. You may write a paragraph on relevant biological (i.e. ancient DNA, skeletal, etc.) evidence for this question, but the majority of your argument must be based on archaeological data such as artefacts, site types, dates, food remains, palaeoecological data, etc.Â
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