The Startling Alternative Theory of How Humans Arrived in America [2:50]

It’s a difference of opinion. The likelihood is (and a researcher discusses it in one of those vids) that the culture lived primarily at the water’s edge during a glaciation so the areas where artifacts bridging the time gap are underwater on what’s now the continental shelf.

The Bering Strait crossing happened more than once as well. The main impediment is that a lot of “my professor said it, I believe it” is from landlubbers who like stuff cut and dried.

When I had my DNA done it said, “<1 Native American”. Turned out to come from my archaic Siberian roots, IOW, common ancestry with people who later crossed the Bering Strait. :^) The remaining descendants occur in eastern Canada, because a group that came in later pushed them across the continent.

Four corners meaning Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. But the legend says the place of emergence was Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico. The travel from the Bering Straits to here was divided into areas and as people left one place to travel to another, they said they left one world and went to another. ( kinda like what sunkenciv said- they got pushed out or people groups got tired of neighbors and kin and decided to keep moving south.

So the way I think is the first world was dark and cold meaning the bering strait area in cold conditions. Second world was northern Alaska and Canada. Third world was south Canada and northern USA. Then the fourth world is here in the four corners where we stopped around the 1400s I think .

I have coined a term recentism
A condition where one only goes far enough back in history to support their claims.
Most recent is Putin and his “historical” claims for lands he wants, but my favorites or the Mexican and American Indian claims

Mexicans claim parts of USA based on the fact that they controlled these lands before they were “taken” or sold. But how did Mexico come to control these lands, they took them from others who had undoubtedly taken them from others…

Lakota claim ownership of the black hills because the white man took the land from them, but historical evidence shows at least 7 previous owners, none by consent.

[snip] Twenty years ago, most archaeologists believed the first Americans were not fishermen, but rather big-game hunters who had followed mammoths and bison through the ice-free corridor in Canada. The distinctive Clovis spear points found at sites in the lower 48 states starting about 13,500 years ago were thought to be their signature. But bit by bit, the Clovis-first picture has crumbled.

The biggest blow came in 1997, when archaeologists confirmed that an inland site at Monte Verde in Chile was at least 14,500 years old -- 1000 years before Clovis tools appeared. Since then, several more pre-Clovis sites have come to light, and the most recent date from Monte Verde stretches back to 18,500 years ago, although not all researchers accept it. Genetic evidence from precontact South American skeletons now suggests that the earliest Americans expanded out of Beringia about 16,000 years ago.

Not only were the Clovis people not the first to arrive, but many researchers also doubt the first Americans could have made it by land. Glaciers likely covered the land route through western Canada until after 16,000 years ago, according to recent research that dated minerals in the corridor's oldest sand dunes. Another study showed that bison from Alaska and the continental United States didn't mingle in the corridor until about 13,000 years ago, implying that the passage took at least 2000 years to fully open and transform into a grassland welcoming to megafauna and their human hunters. [/snip]
Most archaeologists think the first Americans arrived by boat. Now, they're beginning to prove it | Lizzie Wade | Science | 10 Aug 2017

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