
Submission + - Americas Populated Earlier Than Previously Thought
evil agent writes: From Scientific American
However, advances in radiocarbon dating now show that some Clovis sites in South America are the same age or even younger than those in North America. This suggests that the Clovis people were not the first Americans.The traditional story of the peopling of the New World holds that ancient migrants out of northeast Asia slipped into the Americas bearing finely shaped stone projectiles, so-called "Clovis points," after the town in New Mexico where they were first uncovered. This Clovis culture rapidly spread throughout the empty continents and by 1,000 years after their arrival had reached the southernmost tip of what is now South America, making them the original ancestors of indigenous Americans.