Showerthought: I used to think the Clovis people were the first in North America

Then last month I read about the White Sands footprints in New Mexico, which are thousands of years older. Has anyone else had a basic timeline fact they learned in school completely overturned by a new find?

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taraanderson1mo ago

Honestly I'm still not totally sold on the White Sands stuff. New dating methods can be tricky and one site doesn't rewrite the whole book. The Clovis model had a ton of evidence behind it for a long time, so I'm gonna need more than footprints in one spot to throw it all out. It feels like every few years there's a new "oldest" find that changes later. Let the dust settle on this one first lol.

benclark1mo ago

Yeah but didn't they find seeds in the prints for dating?

skylerrobinson28d ago

Totally get wanting more proof! Heard a podcast where they talked about the seed dating being pretty solid though. It's wild to think people were walking around there that long ago.