The Origin of the Clovis

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About 13,000 years ago, a culture of peoples known to the archaeological world as the Clovis made a trek across the land bridge connecting modern day Alaska and their native continent of Asia. This is the accepted theory concerning habitation of the Americas, and more importantly the accepted timetable. As archeologists continue to research and dig deeper, they are finding more questions, as opposed to more answers. When did the Clovis migrate to the Americas? How …

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…Northern Alaska by the Inupiat peoples. With so many variables to consider and mounds of evidence to take into account, it is very difficult to promote one theory as more accurate than another is. Based on all that has been presented about each theory, the most credible explanation is that natives migrated from Asia across an exposed land bridge to Alaska, and continued along the glacier-free coast into the Americas much earlier than first believed.