” a whole lot of speculation padding it as well”
No kidding. Just using similarity of arrow heads seems like a huge stretch. There are only a few ways to chip a stone arrow head and it was probably conceived all over the world. And, how slow was the journey from NE Asia to North America? 10 years? 100 years? 1,000 years? A lot would be forgotten in the longer time periods, new ideas conceived. I would think it would be very hard to connect something as simple as arrow heads over 100 or 1,000 years.
I’m not even an amateur. I know nothing about such anthropology. But this seems like a big stretch.
I’ve often thought the rising sea level after the ice age would have flooded many sites. Also as remote as the region is there are probably archeological sites that simply haven’t been found.
So these folks came around 20k years ago, so the next question is where did the Clovis people come from, they’re around 16k years ago if I remember correctly. Are they the ones who it was suggested might be European? And a third question is what direction were the people traveling who left footprints in Mexico or Central America several millenia before the ones from Japan? Also are the Joman different from the Ainu?
So these folks came around 20k years ago, so the next question is where did the Clovis people come from, they’re around 16k years ago if I remember correctly. Are they the ones who it was suggested might be European? And a third question is what direction were the people traveling who left footprints in Mexico or Central America several millenia before the ones from Japan? Also are the Joman different from the Ainu?