Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada

Lauriane Bourgeon; Ariane Burke; Thomas Higham

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169486

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Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada

Lauriane Bourgeon ,

* E-mail: lauriane.bourgeon@umontreal.ca

Affiliation Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal QC, Canada
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Ariane Burke,

Affiliation Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal QC, Canada
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Thomas Higham

Affiliation Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada

Lauriane Bourgeon,
Ariane Burke,
Thomas Higham

Published: January 6, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169486

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How about DNA from sediments?

Posted by FW on 28 Apr 2017 at 06:14 GMT

Intriguing. – I am curious, whether for the next step you are considering to employ methods similar to this one http://science.sciencemag... Or are you on it already?

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Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada

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How about DNA from sediments?

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