The Incredible Human Journey (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
The New World:Finding the First Americans Bridging the Continents: Beringia This vast continent was the last of all the great landmasses to be populated by humans. For hundreds of thousands of years, while humans spread throughout Africa, Asia and Europe, the New World was unknown and unreachable. Whereas modern humans replaced archaic populations – Homo erectus, Neanderthals – in the Old World, Homo sapiens would be the first human species to set foot in the Americas. Palaeolithic archaeology in America is riddled with controversy: there is ongoing argument over the date of colonisation, the number of ancient migrations into the New World, the origin of the incoming populations and the routes they took. Some have suggested very ancient dates of colonisation, as early as 40,000 or 50,000 years ago, but the evidence is very shaky indeed. Most researchers agree that humans did not reach the Americas until after the LGM. Until very recently, the prevailing opinion was that the first inhabitants of America were hunter-gatherers who moved down through North America about 13,500 years ago, and who carried with them a stone toolkit called ‘Clovis’, named after the site in New Mexico where Clovis stone points were found in the 1930s, associated with the remains of a dozen mammoths.1 But now, with the emergence of new archaeological sites, the redating of some previously discovered sites, as well as a growing database of genetic evidence from living Native Americans, the dates for the occupation of the Americas have been pushed back further and further.
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