[Coyoteman]

Good article, Blam. That's the advantage of a burial site with little oxygen!

Coast of California has material that old and older, but so far no single cemetery of this magnitude. But, our oldest individual is a pretty-well confirmed 13,400 years (several lines of evidence). No DNA yet, but they are still trying.

The theory which is emerging supports a coastal migration to get around the glaciers in Alaska and Canada, followed much later by the ice-free corridor. It may have been closed or with little vegetation ca. 24,000 - 12,000 years ago or so.

Of course, the coastal migration followed the coast, and DNA from Bella Coola to Chumash (near Alaska to southern California) looks like it is supporting the theory.

[blam]

"Coast of California has material that old and older, but so far no single cemetery of this magnitude. But, our oldest individual is a pretty-well confirmed 13,400 years (several lines of evidence). No DNA yet, but they are still trying."

Yup. That would be Arlington Springs Woman, I don't think they'll find DNA from this woman.

[blam]

"Of course, the coastal migration followed the coast, and DNA from Bella Coola to Chumash (near Alaska to southern California) looks like it is supporting the theory."

That is the popular theory at present. The same seems to be shaping up for the Atlantic coast also, The tools being found at the Topper and Cactus Hill sites in Pennsylvania and South Carolina are consistent with tools from the Iberian Area for the same period, 12-20,000 years ago.

...and then, we have the Australians shoving in down in South America, First Americans Were Australians

Time will tell.