By the late 1990s, scholars generally agreed that humans had arrived in North and South America by at least 11,000 BC, about 1,500 years before the appearance of Clovis culture.
Sources
- Paleo-Indians - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help (kids.britannica.com)
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-people-south-america-clovis (sciencenews.org)
- https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/clovis/rose1.html (archive.archaeology.org)
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