The “New” Old Ancestors

For almost 80 years, archaeologists were pretty sure how and when the first humans came to the New World. A 1932 excavation of a prehistoric village near Clovis, New Mexico, established that people first showed up in North America at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago. They came across an ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait. Those first people are known to science as the “Clovis Culture,” and most accept them as the ancestors of all native people. So it caused quit