Monte Verde in Chile's Llanquihue province, dating to about 10,500 BCE, is considered the oldest confirmed human habitation site in the Americas, while the Yana Rhinoceros Horn site in Siberia shows humans were present on the western side of Beringia as early as 25,000 BCE.
Sources
- Native American - Prehistory, Tribes, Culture | Britannica (britannica.com)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8936174_The_Yana_RHS_site_Humans_in_the_Arctic_before_the_Last_Glacial_Maximum (researchgate.net)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-dna-reveals-complex-story-human-migration-between-siberia-and-north-america-180972356/ (smithsonianmag.com)
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