These are the OLDEST archaeological sites in North America. The antiquity of some of these sites is becoming more widely accepted, but some are still VERY controversial. The ancient artifacts archaeologists discovered at these locations make us question everything we thought we knew about how people got to North America….
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Chapters:
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00:00 – The Anthropology of Running
01:57 – Was Clovis First?
04:47 – Meadowcroft Rockshelter
10:48 – White Sands National Park
14:46 – Bluefish Caves
21:02 – Topper
26:33 – The Cerutti Mastodon Site
31:34 – Concluding Thoughts
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What do you think about these Pre-Clovis sites? Do you buy it? Do you believe there are even older discoveries waiting to be found? Share your thoughts here!
Just found you. It’s really rare to find a smaller channel as yours using REAL narration and non-AI content. I will be watching all day at work now. Subbed and notifications are on 😎
I’ve rejected Clovis first since I first heard the preposterous idea.
Humans have been to the moon they were here
I keep hearing about the land bridge caused by ice or crossing the ice. Yet we see archaeological sites well under water assumed to have been built during low water level glacier periods. Would there not be more possibilities of more land bridges caused by low water levels? Additionally, open water navigation would be shorter due to more exposed shorelines? This all makes it seem much more probably for migration that didn't involve crossing over ice.
The cerutti site is less than 5 mi from where I live. I just found out about it and was quite surprised.
After researching it on the internet I believe it is in fact a valid archaeological site it seems that all the people that have debunked it
Haven't actually examined the evidence this is typical of archaeologists they will fight tooth and nail (No pun intended ) to prevent their established view from being overturned. This is the opposite of good science in my opinion.
In the 90s I took an anthropology course we we talked about telling the difference between bone broken when “green” and breaks that occurred later. I don’t understand how this was a controversial aspect of the Cerutti site. It’s not new knowledge by any stretch.
Hello,
I just wanted to congratulate you on an excellent presentation. So many videos that touch on this kind of subject are no more than click-bait farming, completely wrong having been cobbled together by exemplars of the Dunning-Kruger effect, or the ramblings of out-and-out nut-jobs.
"Extraordinary claims [may] require extraordinary evidence". But without reasoned speculation no further investigation will be made.
Un-reasoned speculation is of course the enemy of progress.
EXCELLENT WORK! More please.
My ppl have been here forever my great kokums told us don't believe the white mans history books they said wonder why
Subscribed. This is really well done.
I subscribed
Great job and thank you for not being AI!
Look up Pendejo cave in New Mexico. It is only about 20 maybe 30 miles from white sands and had supposedly been occupied up to 50,000 years ago. 😊
Clovis first is dogma, not science.
I really appreciate the mention of Meadowcroft in SW Pennsylvania as I don't think that it gets referred to often enough. However, please know that the animal hole that brought up the stone fragments was made by a ground hog, not a badger as we don't have the latter animal in this part of Appalachia.
Once again I hear about how Clovis people didn't kill many mamoths because of some scientific study that determined how they had a lack of penetration, blah, blah, blah.
Just read "what led to the discovery of the source of the Nile" by Speke and you will know how elephants were taken before guns.
Basically, they distracted them and someone with a very sharp knife cut their achilles tendons.
I don't have a doctorate in any fields so my opinion doesn't matter. I do read a hundred non-fiction books per year, though. Just for the heck of it I'll tell you the most common weapon of homo sapiens throughout history-a simple rock. Yes, a rock. I can give you hundreds of examples,yet they are often ignored from the obvious lack of technology.
BTW. I do like your video, though.
Thank you for your video! I’ve had a life long interest in archeology and would love to know more about archaeology in the Americas.
Great video. Subscribed 👍
I found an old site. Gathered many artifacts. I would love to have my artifacts evaluated
The two geographical locations most conducive to supporting early hunter-gatherer populations were the coastal regions of oceans and seas, and along major riverways. The majority of the cultures in existence today that depend, either partially or primarily on hunting and gathering for their subsistence still obtain much of their caloric intake from the rich biological resources found along the coasts and major rivers. As such, it's only logical to presume that these same locations have been the most heavily populated areas going back hundreds of thousands of years, even before the emergence of modern humans. Being that sea level has risen roughly 400 feet since the last glacial maximum, and most if not all major river systems would have experienced repeated episodes of major or even catastrophic flooding during the melting of the ice sheets and mountain glaciers, I think it's safe to say the vast majority of the archeological evidence for early human habitation lies under hundreds of feet of water today, or was destroyed altogether by floods that were degrees of magnitude greater than any known during historic times. Unfortunately this leaves modern archeologists with precious few clues remaining with which they can try to piece together a view of human history before the greatest part of all that melting subsided six to eight thousand years ago. A good analogy might be trying to describe what's pictured in a 10,000 piece puzzle when you only have a few dozen scattered puzzle pieces to go by. With so little to go on it's imprudent to rule out almost any possibility.
you don't believe that all those similar megaliths from around the world are 2000 years old. do you? they are much, much, much older
all migrations used water as transportation back in the day🙃
Why is it still up for debate. The earliest human activity and oldest animal bones in North America. True Old World
Super cool 👍
Thanks for your efforts, I enjoyed your video, will watch for more 😉👍
I’m amazed how frequently the Paisley Caves are not included in some of these discussions, any thoughts on including them in this list?
Also, there are petrified Oak trees in some areas in the far north, pre-ice age, which is interesting how much our earth has changed 😉
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