Reconciling pre-Columbian settlement hypotheses requires integrative, multidisciplinary, and model-bound approaches

BORTOLINI, MARIA CATIRA; GONZÁLEZ-JOSÉ, ROLANDO; SANDRO LUIS BONATTO; RODRIGUES DOS, SANTOS FABRICIO

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NATL ACAD SCIENCES

Lugar: Washington DC, USA; Año: 2014

0027-8424

Achilli et al. (1) present unique evidence concerning human mitogenomes and argue that such data are sufficient to generate a consensus scenario for the first settlement of the Americas. Here, we challenge their statement of having achieved a reconciling model because it ignores coherent ideas recently proposed by many researchers.