Re:Fossil footprints reveal humans in North America earlier ...
by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:50AM
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One answer would be that there was no conquering. That could happen via a few possibilities:
1. pre-Clovis people were so thinly spread that Clovis was able to just fill in the gaps
2. pre-Clovis people had actually essentially become extinct before Clovis arrived. It's not easy to see how that would be the case in a continent(s) of this size, but not actually implausible.
3. as a combination of the two, pre-Clovis culture was completely nomadic, and their constant migration kept them out of the way of Clovis until a point where their population was so diminished as to leave no descendants, even via inter-breeding.
1. pre-Clovis people were so thinly spread that Clovis was able to just fill in the gaps
2. pre-Clovis people had actually essentially become extinct before Clovis arrived. It's not easy to see how that would be the case in a continent(s) of this size, but not actually implausible.
3. as a combination of the two, pre-Clovis culture was completely nomadic, and their constant migration kept them out of the way of Clovis until a point where their population was so diminished as to leave no descendants, even via inter-breeding.