Question about early human tool sites in North America

My cousin who works at a museum in Santa Fe mentioned they're finding stone tools from 15,000 years ago in New Mexico, way older than we used to think. She said the old Clovis-first model is basically wrong now, which really flipped my view of how people got here. What other recent finds are changing the timeline for you guys?

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the_mila4d agoMost Upvoted

The White Sands footprints in New Mexico are a huge one for me. They found human tracks in the mud that are 23,000 years old, which is wild. That pushes things back so far. Then there's the site at Cooper's Ferry in Idaho with tools from 16,000 years ago. It really does feel like the old story of people coming over the land bridge right at the end of the ice age is too simple. The coast was probably a major route way earlier than we thought.

drew_bennett244d ago

Yeah, that old land bridge story is way too simple now.

cole9944d agoMost Upvoted

Totally, @drew_bennett24, those coastal finds change everything.