For instance, recent genetic evidence from studies with modern (Volodko et al. 2008) and ancient (Gilbert et al. 2008; Rasmussen et al. 2010) Circum-Arctic mtDNA genomes suggests complex processes involving successive settlement and resettlement of Beringian areas.
This multi-proxy approach serves to document the effects of successive human settlements on the environment at the watershed scale.
That operation, which continued for the next 30 years, raising minimal criticism from the British, effectively honed the skills of the men who would become the main negotiators in successive Anglo-Irish settlements.
Because of its position facing the continent of Europe across the Strait of Dover, Kent has been subjected to numerous invasions and has attracted successive waves of settlement.
Despite America's longstanding position considering Israeli settlements illegitimate, successive administrations have done very little to stop the expansion of the settlement enterprise.
Furthermore, under U.N. Security Council resolutions 446, 452, 465 and 471, Israel is explicitly required to withdraw from these settlements, but successive Democratic and Republican administrations -- with support of congressional leaders of both parties -- have blocked the United Nations from enforcing these resolutions.
Other tribes, including many in the Eastern United States that were decimated by successive waves of European settlement, have more trouble proving their descent from tribes that existed long ago.
Successive Israeli governments established Jewish settlements on the West Bank hilltops, encouraged by Israeli religious nationalists who claim the area as part of their biblical birthright.
Due to its traditional one-sided policy, the US has become the enabler of Israel's addiction to the occupation and settlements by allowing successive Israeli governments to pursue a disastrous policy of expansionism, even though such a policy was and still is to Israel's detriment.
