The physical evidence could make a reasonable person question that.
The one thing we are certain of is that the first inhabitants came from the west not from the east. So they came from Asia and not from Africa, and definitely not from Europe.
“The one thing we are certain of is that the first inhabitants came from the west not from the east.”
But much sooner than thought... In fact I believe in the theory that first man was on the American continent 130,000 years ago. I myself have found Mousterian stone tools in California. But of course this does not fit the narrative.
The physical evidence could make a reasonable person question that.
That is not known for certain.
Have you ever heard of the Solutrean hypothesis?
One of the biggest arguments against it is that the timeline doesn’t make sense. If we just pushed back the human presence on the continent to >21K then the timeline might make sense.
Everything keeps getting older.