When did the First Peoples arrive in America?

Re:When did the First Peoples arrive in America? by masklinn on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:38PM (#34199898)

Cerutti being real doesn't mean it's H. Sapiens tho does it? It could be an older hominin, an other descendant of H.Erectus (after all as far as we know H. Neandertalensis did not evolve in africa, and H. Erectus reached the sea of china and the pacific ocean)

Although Fuyan also shows H.Sapiens may (its datation is also disputed) also have reached out of africa much earlier than otherwise supported.

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Re:When did the First Peoples arrive in America? by merpnderp on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:04PM (#34200192)

Absolutely. Many H. subspecies were tool using.

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Re:When did the First Peoples arrive in America? by AlotOfReading on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:09PM (#34200239)

The problem of cerutti's dating is that the archaeological record of hominids in the high Arctic begins <50kya, 80k after the hypothetical dating. There's some middle paleolithic stuff in southern/central Siberia, but also few options to get to the new world without boats or beringia (which was submerged during previous interglacials).

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Re:When did the First Peoples arrive in America? by moloch-hai on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:22PM (#34202938)

That is not, in fact, a problem of Cerutti's dating. Its dating is rock solid.

The problem is clearly in preconceptions about H. migration, and beliefs about the capabilities of our ancestors long ago.

People constructed boats and settled Crete 200,000 years ago. Like it or not. Were they H. sap., in Europe already? Maybe!

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