The underwater archaeology of the submerged coastlines of the Last Glacial Maximum has barely begun.

The ancient DNA record of early Americans continues to expand with each new ancient genome successfully extracted and sequenced.

The pre-Clovis debate will continue to evolve as new evidence is found and new methods are applied.

What White Sands established is that the debate should be about when people arrived and how they got here — not about whether they were here.

They were here.

The footprints prove it.