Publisher's Synopsis
For many years, the accepted version of American prehistory dated the arrival of peoples to the Western hemisphere between 12,900 and 13,200 years ago. This consensus, called the 'Clovis Barrier,' has recently been challenged by discoveries at numerous archaeological sites in both North and South America. New genetic analysis has confirmed a Siberian origin for Native Americans and linguistic research suggests they arrived in three waves. Owing to these findings, most American archaeologists are now convinced that people came to the Western Hemisphere thousands of years prior to Clovis - just how much earlier is the subject of continuing research, with evidence of human presence as early as 33,000 years ago. This history of the very earliest settlement of the New World is the subject of this book.
