Peter N. Jones

name I am Director of the Bauu Institute and Press, located in Boulder, Colorado. I am also the author of several books and articles, including "Respect for the Ancestors: American Indian Cultural Affiliation in the American West" and "American Indian mtDNA, Y Chromosome Genetic Data, and the Peopling of North America." I am also the author of the Indigenous Issues Today news blog.

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American Indians and Subsistence on the Great Plains of North America 10,000 Years Ago

26th August 2007
When the ancestors of today's American Indian, Alaskan Natives, and First Nation peoples migrated to the Americas, the variety and types of animals encountered were very different than those of northeast Asia. These early migrants had to learn how to hun... Read >
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American Indians and Plants in the Great Basin of North America: An Ancient Relationship

15th August 2007
American Indians and their ancestors have been living and subsisting on the natural plants of the Great Basin for thousands of years. Over time, as American Indians seasonally harvested the natural floral resources, and the resources accordingly responde... Read >
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Was Columbus the First European to Discover the Americas?

15th August 2007
The question of whether Europeans migrated to and inhabited the Americas prior to the modern discovery by Columbus has been of longstanding interest and controversy. In fact, for over 200 years scholars have asked whether late Pleistocene (18,000-13,000 ... Read >
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What Do Molecular Genetic Studies Tell Us About the Peopling of the Americas?

02nd August 2007
Currently the archaeological, geographic, and ethnographic evidence indicates that the ancestors of today's American Indians migrated into the Americas from north Asia some 15,000-13,000 years ago. This evidence has long been the basis for standard theor... Read >