“If they found footprints in Chile, how long would it have taken people to migrate south from the Bering land bridge? 1,000 years? 5,000?”
Or perhaps they crossed the seas. There seems to be considerable evidence of this in extreme antiquity.
I’ve often wondered how the Pacific islands were populated.
“crossed the seas” — there does seem to be a lot of increasing evidence of this in recent years.
I can easily see people migrating 10 miles a year overland following food supplies. But heading out into the the unknown expanse of the ocean. Wow, what prehistoric man would do that? That’s almost unimaginable. That would have to be a sure death sentence.
Human ancestors crossed to Flores from SE Asia 800,000 years ago.