Oldest Clovis Sites Found Thus Far

[The Grand Nudger]

The idea that there may have been transoceanic contact or migration has been proposed before. Thor Heyrdahl(?) got some notice for it, and for building boats within the remit of what would have been available to the people at the time and successfully making trips accross both the atlantic and pacific. Even went so far as to show how tools and procedures of native boatbuilders were too close to be coincidence (ultimately though, that fell through). Genetics can suggest a couple of different possibilities, and most of what it suggests hinges on how exhaustive we have to be when accounting for the variables of intercultural breeding since that time - and before that time. Recent studies (combined with recent finds) suggests that the original population (that migrated to the americas) may have been more than one group, or decidedly more cosmopolitan than we originally assumed (we washed what we might call "european" genetic markers out on suspicion of later contamination). We also have evidence that there may have been more than one route taken. The prevailing maxim is nicknamed "Clovis First" - the trouble with that explanation is that it doesn't look like the clovis culture was the only culture to make the trip, or even the first culture to do so...even though we can say with certainty that they were the ultimate winners in the race for the americas(which would help to explain why we thought they were the first...there is alot of clovis shit laying about).