Paleo Indians

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Paleo-Indians
2. Adams Heritage: Prehistory of Ontario
3. Tri-City Herald: Kennewick Man Virtual Interpretive Center      
4. Southeast Archaeological Center: Paleoindian Period - Southeastern Prehistory.
5. Cabrillo College: Who Was First? Ancient Immigrants Into The Americas
6. Friends of America's Past: Earliest Americans: Status of Ancient Remains
7. Video: Spirit Caveman Mummy (Time: 4:15)  

Paleo Indians History

Pre-Clovis

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Monte Verde Excavation: or Clovis Police Beat a Retreat
• Bureau of Land Management: Alaska: Mesa Site - In Search of the First Americans
• Center for the Study of the First Americans: Research

Clovis

• Wikipedia: Clovis culture
• Central States Archaeological Societies: Earliest Americans  
• Wikipedia: Solutrean hypothesis

Folsom

• Wikipedia: Folsom point
• Yahoo! Image Search: folsom points

Plainview-Plano

• Elders' Voices: Archeological Records
• Mountain Man Plains Indian Fur Trade: Prehistoric Migration of American Indians

Genetic Origins

• PBS Scientific American Frontiers: Coming Into America: Tracing the Genes
• Encyclopedia.com: The current debate about the origins of the Paleoindians  
• Genomics.energy.gov: DNA, Ancestry and Human Migration

Paleo Indians Society

Paleo Indians Religious Beliefs

• Google Books: Journey to the Ice Age:...Secular and Sacred in the Early Paleo-Indian...  
• Google Book Search: Paleoindian Sacred

Paleo Indians Culture, Clothing and Crafts

• Research Laboratories of Archaeology: The Pathfinders: The Paleoindian Period
• BLM Environmental Education Resources: Mystery Of The Mesa: A Science Detective Story
• PanhandleNation: Paleo-Indian Period: The Clovis Culture in the Texas Panhandle  

Paleo Indians Role in Animal Extinctions

• National Humanities Center: Paleoindians and the Great Pleistocene Die-Off
• Texas Beyond History: Bonfire Shelter Prehistoric Bison (Buffalo) Jump

Paleo Indians Key Figures

• Ele.net: "Uncle Bill" Baker (1877-1957) Avocational Archeologist 
• Legendary Times Books: Thomas D. Dillehay and Monte Verde
• NOVA Online: Jim Chatters and Kennewick Man
• NOVA Online: Eight Anthropologists make "Claims for the Remains"
• Texas A&M University: Michael R. Waters

Paleo Indians Videos and Images

• Google Image Search: Paleo Indians
• Yahoo! Image Search: Monte Verde Chile
• Discovery Channel Store: Preview: Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?  
• NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: Bering Land Bridge Animation (GIF Image 700x458 pixels)  
• YouTube: The First Americans Part 1 (Time: 7:22) | Part 2 (Time: 8:00)  
• YouTube and Google Video Search: First Americans

Paleo Indians News and Blogs

• The Christian Science Monitor: "First Americans...50,000 years ago" (November 18, 2004)  
• SignOnSanDiego.com: Nevada's Spirit Cave Man continues to fuel debate... (May 23, 2006)  
• MSNBC: Stone tools may be among oldest in Americas (January 12, 2007)  
• Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze!: Searching for the First Americans (October 11, 2007)
• International Herald Tribune: "Scientists protest efforts to give Indian tribes..." (November 30, 2007)  
• Archaeology Article Search: Paleoindians  
• Google Blog Search: Spirit Cave Man

Paleo Indians Timeline

• • All dates in BP (Before Present). In this case, "present" refers to the year 1950.
• 33,000 - 12,500 BP: Models of Migration to the New World
• 30,000 - 13,500 BP: Ice Age Migrations Beringia
• 13,000 BC (14,950 BP): Timeline of Ohio's Prehistoric People
• 13,000 - 11,000 BP: Arlington Springs Woman California
• 12,500 BP: Monte Verde, Chile
• 12,000 - 9,500 BP: Clovis Culture
• 10,000 - 9,500 BP: Horn Shelter Texas
• 9,415 BP: Spirit Cave Man Nevada
• 9,200 BP: Kennewick Man Washington
• 8,500 BP: Paleoindians era ends (Utah)

Dating Conventions

• Wikipedia: Before Present
• Wikipedia: Common Era
• New Scientist: Forum: Half-living in the past - A bone to pick with archaeologists (November 17, 1990)

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