The Smithsonian writer Guy Gugliotta in his article ‘When did humans come to America?’ explains that the peopling of the Americas, happened sometime in the past 25,000 years where due to a wave of big game hunters crossed into the New World from Siberia at the end of the last ice age, when the Bering Strait was a land bridge that had emerged after glaciers and continental ice sheets froze enough of the world’s water to lower sea level as much as 400 feet below what it is today.
Ted Goebel from the Waters at the Center for the Study of the First Americans said that “The evidence was unequivocal,” Clovis sites, werere spread all over the continent, and “there was a clear association of the fauna with hundreds, if not thousands, of artifacts,” Goebel said. “Again and again it was the full picture.”
Clovis points were first discovered in the USA in 1929 near a New Mexico town, archaeologists determined that the Clovis sites were 13,500 years old with the use of radiocarbon dating. The first Clovis points were found in ancient campsites along with the remains of mammoth and ice age bison, creatures that researchers knew had died out thousands of years ago. But the discovery dramatically undermined the prevailing wisdom that human beings and these …show more content…
All the Clovis dates pointed to a beginning that coincided with the opening of a vast corridor through the ice running from north-west to south-east from 13,000 years ago. Before this corridor opened, went the argument, no-one could have traversed the ice-sheets. Never mind that, even when it was open, the ice corridor was several thousand kilometers of barren Arctic desert and a lake requiring many packed lunches to traverse ñ this was the grand theory into which all elements could be
Ted Goebel from the Waters at the Center for the Study of the First Americans said that “The evidence was unequivocal,” Clovis sites, werere spread all over the continent, and “there was a clear association of the fauna with hundreds, if not thousands, of artifacts,” Goebel said. “Again and again it was the full picture.”
Clovis points were first discovered in the USA in 1929 near a New Mexico town, archaeologists determined that the Clovis sites were 13,500 years old with the use of radiocarbon dating. The first Clovis points were found in ancient campsites along with the remains of mammoth and ice age bison, creatures that researchers knew had died out thousands of years ago. But the discovery dramatically undermined the prevailing wisdom that human beings and these …show more content…
All the Clovis dates pointed to a beginning that coincided with the opening of a vast corridor through the ice running from north-west to south-east from 13,000 years ago. Before this corridor opened, went the argument, no-one could have traversed the ice-sheets. Never mind that, even when it was open, the ice corridor was several thousand kilometers of barren Arctic desert and a lake requiring many packed lunches to traverse ñ this was the grand theory into which all elements could be