Show Notes
An examination of the old and new theories of how humans came to North America and became the ancient ancestors of the Indigenous people on the continent.
Sources:
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F.C. Steeves 1491 by Charles C. Mann
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Robert Sanders, “Tests Confirm Humans Tramped Around North America more than 20,000 years ago”, UC Berkeley News, November 11, 2024, https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/05/tests-confirm-humans-tramped-around-north-america-more-than-20-000-years-ago/
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Jennifer Raff, “Rejecting the Solutrean hypothesis: the first peoples in the Americas were not from Europe” The Guardian, Feb 2018.
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