Archaeological studies date human colonization of North A…

HistoryPrehistoric (Late Pleistocene, ~13,000+ years BP)North Americahigh confidence

Archaeological studies date human colonization of North America by the Clovis culture to more than 13,000 years ago.

Notes on verification

Confirmed by multiple independent sources including peer-reviewed Science Advances paper, HHMI, and Wikipedia, all consistent with ~13,000+ year dating for Clovis culture.

Sources

New Study Refutes Theory of How Humans Populated North America | HISTORY (history.com)
https://www.hhmi.org/news/clovis-people-spread-central-and-south-america-then-vanished (hhmi.org)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0455 (science.org)

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