The dispute was about the age.

And that dispute, as described earlier, has now been substantially addressed by independent dating methods.

The result is that White Sands has brought the pre-Clovis debate to a different kind of resolution than any previous site achieved.

Not a final answer — archaeology does not work that way — but a convergent conclusion supported by multiple independent lines of evidence that is considerably more robust than most previous pre-Clovis claims could muster.

What The Dunes Are Hiding

The gypsum dune field at White Sands is one of the most visually spectacular features of the park, and it is also, in a very literal sense, hiding things.