The 13,000-Year-Old Man Found On A California Island — And The Dating Test That Changed The Story Of America’s First Migration
Monte Verde eventually met even the most demanding standards.
Intensive scrutiny by a team that included former Clovis First defenders produced a conclusion that the site was genuine and its dates were valid.
The paradigm had to change.
But changing a paradigm is not the same as establishing an alternative one.
The fall of Clovis First opened the question of what came before and by what route, without immediately providing a clear answer.
The alternatives — coastal migration, multiple migration waves, earlier interior entry — each had supporters and evidence, but none achieved the clean consensus that Clovis First had once provided.