New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease
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    131 day ago

    Sorry, disproven? As far as I am aware(layman), the claims have only been disproven by evidence pushing it further back.

    One of the chief problems I am aware of is that the places they inhabited and the coastal path they likely took is now under a considerable amount of ocean.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 day ago

      That and the Americas have changed quite a bit since those ancient times. Even mild environmental shifts can cause a shit tonne of damage to evidence, and if their population was spread out and small enough said evidence couldve been sparce already.