Back in the 1980’s I was chatting with a woman archeologist in an East Coast bar. She said out in California she had taken part in a dig where they found human/hominid? remains suspected to be 200,000 to 300,000 years old. Yes, that old! But the information was apparently being supressed, disrespected, etc. She was pissed.
Yes. There are older archaeologists who have reputations based on humans coming here after 12,000 B.C.
These guys are blocking the information and discredit anyone finding older sites. It is always politics.