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Meltzer can't stand the idea of a European connection. That's his main problem. He may or may not have a valid point with the data he's using for this, his latest attack on all things pre-Clovis. I don't know. What I do know is that the evidence for Europeans in ice-age America, which includes an artifact made from French flint, is overwhelming. Most Clovis sites are in the East and South. All pre-clovis sites are in the East and South.
For those interested in the subject, I heartily recommend Across Atlantic Ice by Stanford and Bradley.

“I’m not going to hang a completely novel interpretation of the peopling of the Americas from something dredged off the sea bottom 40 years ago and not properly documented,” said David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University....

I’m not going to hang a completely novel interpretation of the peopling of the Americas from something dredged off the sea bottom 40 years ago

Uhh, dude.

The oceans were much lower then, and most of the evidence of humans from then is probably near the previous seacoast.

IOW, humans then and now tended to hang out at the edge of the water. If you find artifacts, they're likely to be from the ocean bottom.

Thanks CG. He’s one of those go-to guys when a quote is needed from a purported expert, but anyone who claims as he does that all evidence of pre-Clovis sites has been falsified is a scientist in name only.