With the definitive dating of the “human” footprints at White Sands pushing back the earliest human occupation of North America to 21,000 to 23,000 years BP, we decided to take a look at several well known pre-Clovis sites. These sites are often controversial and heavily debated amongst archaeologists. We’ll discuss the findings from each site, why they are controversial, and what we think.

Links

• Stunning footprints push back human arrival in Americas by thousands of years (Nat Geo)
• Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum (Science)
• 130k-Year-Old Arch Site with Dr. Steven Holen - Special Episode - The Archaeology Show
• Radioactive Science and a 130,000-Year-Old Mastodon - ArchaeoTech 52
• Settlers of Cerutti: Evaluating Claims About the Cerutti Mastodon Site - Ruins 37
• Reclaiming Indigenous Histories and the Indigenous Paleolithic - HeVo 31
• Getting "in tune" with the Paleoindian with Dr. Jesse Tune - Ruins 50
• Ancient America - Meadowcroft Rockshelter - Arch365 140
• Surprise discoveries in Mexico Cave may double time of peopling of the Americas
• Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum
• Were humans living in a Mexican cave during the last ice age? (Science)

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