A Workshop to Explore the Genetics, Paleoecology, Archaeology and Anthropology of Human Migrations across the Arctic, Fall 2015; Boulder, CO

就在2015年春天，北美土著民族起源的话题在大众媒体上得到了广泛讨论，这是由于西北大学PI Geoff Hayes在美国科学院支持的因纽特人遗传学项目的最新发现（参见福布斯文章“阿拉斯加土著人如何促使考古学家研究他们的起源”）。2015年5月13日。这导致了科技时报、SitNews、生物新闻网等网站上的大量附加文章。印第安人的起源一直是公众感兴趣的话题之一。然而，受到最近DNA研究新信息的刺激，学术界尚未充分考虑这项支持早期北美人起源于白令陆桥的新研究如何与已知的人类学、考古学、语言学和环境记录相吻合。这笔奖金将用于支持计划为大约30名参与者举办的讲习班，这些参与者是根据他们对白令陆桥模型和晚更新世环境以及白令陆桥考古的积极研究而选出的。它还将包括来自几所大学的研究生的参与，他们正在从事相关的论文项目。该研讨会将首次汇集来自多个学科的研究人员，这些研究人员对白令陆桥问题的各个方面有深入的了解，但尚未综合他们的知识。该讲习班将在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的北极和高山研究所举行，该研究所在该地区有着悠久的研究历史。研讨会由PI John F. Hoffecker （INSTAAR）、PI Scott A. Elias（伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院）和Dennis H. O'Rourke（犹他大学）组织和主持。建议研讨会在秋季举行，最有可能是2015年10月。关于“走出白令陆桥”论文的跨学科研讨会，为遗传学家、生态学家和人类学家之间就过去五十年来美洲原住民起源研究中出现的最重要的观点取得进展提供了最有效的途径。讲习班的目的是对西半球人口的研究方向产生重大影响。这次研讨会将汇集世界上最重要的学者和学生，介绍这一主题的最新科学进展，更重要的是，通过综合这些信息，讨论这一主题的新研究应该采取的轨迹。

As recently as Spring 2015 the topic of the origins of the indigenous peoples of North America has been broadly discussed in the popular press as a result of the recent findings of an ASSP supported project on Inuit genetics, PI Geoff Hayes, Northwestern University (see Forbes article, "How Alaska Natives Spurred Archaeologists To Research Their Origins." May 13, 2015). This led to numerous additional articles in Tech Times, SitNews, Biology News Net etc. The topic of the origins of Native Americans continues to be one of great public interest. However, the academic community spurred by new information coming out of recent DNA research has yet to fully consider how this new research, that supports a Beringian origin of early North Americans, fits within the known anthropological, archaeological, linguistic, and environmental record. This award will support a workshop planned for approximately 30 participants, chosen on the basis of their active research on the Beringian model and the late Pleistocene environment and archaeology of Beringia. It also would include participation by graduate students from several universities, who are working on related thesis projects. The workshop would bring together for the first time researchers from multiple disciplines, researchers who have insight into various aspects of the Beringia issue but have not yet synthesized their knowledge. The workshop would be held at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado in Boulder, which has a long history of research in the region. The workshop is organized and chaired by the PI John F. Hoffecker (INSTAAR), and CoPI Scott A. Elias (Royal Holloway, University of London), and Dennis H. O'Rourke (University of Utah). It is proposed that the workshop take place in the Fall, most likely October of 2015. An interdisciplinary workshop on the Out of Beringia thesis offers the most effective means of initiating progress among geneticists, ecologists, and anthropologists on the most important idea to emerge from the study of Native American origins in the past fifty years. The workshop is intended to have a significant impact on the direction of research on the peopling of the Western Hemisphere. This workshop would bring together the world's foremost scholars and students to present the state of the art science on this topic and, more importantly, by synthesizing this information, discuss the trajectories that new research on this topic should take.