@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdnnn.7,
 ISBN = {9781855661349},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdnnn.7},
 abstract = {As early as the late sixteenth century, José de Acosta, a prescient Jesuit priest who had come to New Spain, speculated that the first inhabitants of the Americas might have migrated there from Asia across the Bering Strait, which was once a bridge between continents. It was an idea that took another three centuries to become commonplace. Nowadays, though there remains some uncertainty as to precise dates, it is widely thought that such migrations began about 50,000 years ago. It is believed that the migrants travelled south, dispersing over the great plains of the American Midwest, and reaching as far},
 author = {PETER STANDISH},
 booktitle = {A Companion to Mexican Studies},
 edition = {NED - New edition},
 pages = {7--19},
 publisher = {Boydell and Brewer},
 title = {Mesoamerica},
 year = {2006}
}