After many years and much effort searching Beringia for the ancestors of Amerinds (PaleoAmerinds), archaeologists are empty-handed. Beringia certainly was the pathway for later peoples (Na-Dene and Inuit), but there is no persuasive evidence of an archaeological culture in Beringia during the last glacial maximum (LGM) when archaeologists expect an early, pre-Clovis culture group and biologists detect a long period of isolationdthe "standstill." In this article, I show that archaeologists defer to biologists for proof of concept, and biologists use that deference to support their outmoded model that Beringia, or even greater Siberia, was the sole route by which all Native American people entered the hemisphere. I propose that the standstill took place in the Americas and that the pathway taken by PaleoAmerinds was by the Pacific Ocean, possibly from Southeast Asia. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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