It is what separates genuine knowledge from wishful thinking.

The Deeper Uncertainties That Remain

The Paisley evidence, for all its strength, does not answer every important question about the peopling of the Americas, and any honest account of what the site has contributed must be explicit about what it does not tell us.

The Paisley evidence does not establish when people first entered the Americas.

It establishes that people were in Oregon approximately 14,200 to 14,300 years ago.

This is a local date for a specific geographic location, not a record of the first human entry into the hemisphere.