peopling

If they’re right, “it resets the playing field of what’s possible” in terms of how archaeologists understand the peopling of the Americas, says Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University.

“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.

According to the museum’s website, Mr. Woodbury researched “potential connections between Indigenous communities to study human variation and support early anthropological theories around the peopling of North America.”

That's a big deal for our understanding of the peopling of the Americas and the genetic composition of indigenous Americans.

Tracking the peopling of the Americas has been a difficult task, and archaeologists disagree over how and when humans arrived.