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AT-0169

Erlandson et al. (2007), The Kelp Highway Hypothesis

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AT-0169
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AT-0169, AT-1752
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Alternate accepted citation records

  • The Kelp Highway Hypothesis: Marine Ecology, the Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas

Recorded research uses

AT-0169

Coastal Migration Theory

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Peer-reviewed ecological and archaeological route synthesis

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AT-1752

Ancient Coastal Civilization Theory

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Peer-reviewed coastal-migration model for the Americas; supports testing coastal routes but not a universal global pathway.

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Topics citing it and claims using it

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Coastal Migration Theory

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Topic citing this source

Ancient Coastal Civilization Theory

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Supporting citation for public claim

Pacific coastal and mixed coastal-river movement are geographically and ecologically plausible and help explain why an inland-only model is too narrow.

Pacific coastal and mixed coastal-river movement is geographically and ecologically plausible and addresses limits in an inland-only first-entry model.
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Supporting citation for public claim

The timing and exact configuration of Pacific coastal or mixed routes remain unresolved, and Monte Verde's chronology must be treated as a separate active site debate.

The date, exact path, number of movements, role of boats, relationship among early sites, and status of Monte Verde remain unresolved or site-specific.
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Supporting citation for public claim

The listed coastal-migration and site studies address routes and archaeological visibility; they do not test claims about Atlantis, an advanced Ice Age civilization, or suppression of evidence.

Submerged landscapes and gaps in the record do not establish Atlantis, an advanced Ice Age civilization, transoceanic civilizers, or archaeological suppression.
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Supporting citation for public claim

Pacific coastal and nearshore movement is a serious hypothesis for at least part of early southward dispersal into the Americas; it is not established as the only route.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

The drowned global-civilization and transmission model tracked in AT-1754 is not established by the catalog's sea-level, continental-shelf, maritime, coastal-migration, or Gulf-basin evidence.

The evidence does not automatically support broader causal, technological, transmission, or literalizing claims beyond the cited record.
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