Clovis Theories Unabiguously Overthrown

The story of the Clovis Migration has long been one of those "scientific" theories that has lived longer than it should have because of its political implications. This discovery should consign it to the dustbin of scientific wrong turns where it belongs. 

"It's time to abandon the Clovis-first model and develop a new model for the peopling of the Americas," said archaeologist Michael Waters of Texas A&M University, who reported his team's new find in the journal Science. "This shows that people were in the Americas at least 2,500 years before Clovis, allowing plenty of time for the Clovis culture to develop here."

Archaeologist Dan Sandweiss of the University of Maine, who was not involved in the research, added: "This really does bring the occupation of the New World into a pre-Clovis time.... Of the other sites, none are as fully convincing."

Of course, the fact that no one has ever discovered Clovis-type artifacts in Asia, where the Clovis people supposedly came from should have been a clue. As should have been the fact that Clovis artifacts were found in South America that were dated to the same time that the land bridge was supposedly open. That would have required an impossibly fast migration.