Archaeology and the Peopling of the Americas: New Evidence from Texas Pushes the Entry Date Back to

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Archaeology and the Peopling of the Americas: New Evidence from Texas Pushes the Entry Date Back to
Peter N. Jones
August 24, 2007
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=35913

People have always been interested in the question of when American Indians first arrived in the Americas. Was it 10,000 years ago across a frozen bridge of land, or perhaps via small boats from Japan, eastern Asia, and Siberia 20,000 to 35,000 years ago. Answers to these questions have always tended towards the frozen land bridge theory, which postulated that people first arrived in the Americas at the beginning of the Holocene epoch (12,500-9,000 calendar years before present). In the last twenty years or so, new archaeological and genetic evidence has challenged this long held theory, completely revolutionizing our understanding of when people first arrived in the Americas. The genetic evidence has been fairly compelling ...........

[semillama]

1. Interesting little article. pretty much sums up the sea change in prehistoric archaeology

Even five years ago, the Clovis First supporters were still abundant and vocal, but now it seems like they've quieted down in the face of accumulating evidence. what would be really exciting would be to find human remains from ca. 15,000 -20,000 years ago.