THE CLAIMS
While this is by no means a definite list of all of the claims that have been made over the peopling of the Americas; they are some of the claims that have garnered the most attention. Each site has been thoroughly analyzed using our evaluation rubric and criteria. The dates presented are BP (before present) where present is considered the 1950s.
Image by Harold E. Malde et al.
White Sands
23,000-21,000 BP WHSA Locality 2 is located in White Sands National Park, New Mexico on the shore of paleo-Lake Otero in the Tularosa Basin. |
Image by Ruth Gotthardt
Bluefish Caves
24,000-23,500 BP Recent research reaffirms the Bluefish Caves as the oldest confirmed archaeological site in North America, providing compelling evidence of human activity during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
Image by Diego Rego Monteiro
Boqueirao do Sitio da Pedra Furada
32,160 - 6,160 BP |
Image by San Diego Natural History Museum
Cerutti Mastodon
130,000 BP |
Image by Fronteras de anthropologia
Vale da Pedra Ferrada
48,000-32,000 BP One of the main significant things this site has gained attention for is rock art, which in itself is evidence of early human occupation. |
Image by Ciprian Ardelean-INAH/Newsflash
Chiquihuite Cave
33,000-13,000 BP Findings from the Chiquihuite Cave site in Zacatecas, and Mexico suggest human presence during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), around 26,000 to 19,000 years ago, potentially extending back from 33,000 to 31,000 years ago. |
Image by D. Griffin
Calico Hills
80,000 - 200,000 BP The Calico Hills site is located in the Mojave Desert, near Yermo, California, in the foothills of the Calico Mountain range. |
Image by Tom Dillehay
Monte Verde
14,500 - 33,000 BP Monte Verde, located in the Llanquihue Province in Chile, is a paleolithic site, characterized by two layers separated by Chinchihuapi Creek, the older Monte Verde I (MV-I), and the younger Monte Verde II (MV-II). |
Image by C. Lahaye
Toca da Tira Peia
~20,000 BP The dates of these samples from Toca da Tira Peia thus serve to rewrite history of Brazil’s human presence with evidence against the Clovis-First theory, with the time of the first human presence in Brazil being pushed back from 10,000 BC to 20,000 BC. |
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