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There is just about enough evidence of earlier human populations in the Western Hemisphere for a scientific certainty that they've been here at least twice as long as the prior consensus has believed for the past 80-100 years. Their route seems to have been down the Pacific coast from Alaska to about the Puget Sound area about 30,000 - 35,000 years ago. Sea levels then were roughly 100 meters aka 350-400 feet lower than they are today.

And the rise of sea levels after the last Ice Age ended put the traces of that migration well under water. But it is a close to scientific certainty now that humans got to southern Chile roughly 30,000 years ago, and various places in between, and that they got here via the Pacific coast route.

“But it is a close to scientific certainty now that humans got to southern Chile roughly 30,000 years ago, and various places in between, and that they got here via the Pacific coast route.”

I have studied this in depth for years now. And there is absolutely no reason why a southern route wasn’t just as possible.

The Mercator projection completely skews our perspective and even the experts are subconsciously fooled by it. And this is why we refuse to accept it. Visually the distance looks impossible by the Mercator projection. But in reality it isn’t far at all from Australia to Tierra del Fuego. The currents favor it, the winds favor it, and there is food and water all along the ice packs of Antarctica. If the inuit can live on ice now so could early man then. If man could float down the coast from the north then they could float across in the south. It could have even happened simultaneously or a southern migration before. There is some real explaining to be done why the oldest sites found are in Tierra del Fuego and not in the north.