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11 results for "pre-Clovis"

M_4_12 Verified Forbidden Archaeology

M_4_12 — Pre-Clovis Sites Compilation: Monte Verde to Cerutti Mastodon

For most of the 20th century, the "Clovis First" paradigm held that the first humans to enter the Americas were the bearers of the Clovis culture — characterized by distinctive fluted stone points — who arrived via the i

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F_1_07 Lost Connections

F_1_07 — First Americans Debate — Clovis, Pre-Clovis, and Coastal Routes

The question of when and how humans first reached the Americas has been transformed in the 21st century by a series of discoveries that have demolished the long-reigning "Clovis-first" paradigm. For decades, the archaeol

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F_1_10 Verified Lost Connections

F_1_10 — Kennewick Man and the Pre-Clovis Debate

The question of when and how humans first reached the Americas has been one of archaeology's most contentious debates for over a century. For decades, the Clovis First model dominated: the earliest Americans were big-gam

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F_1_22 Verified Lost Connections

F_1_22 — Peopling of the Americas: Routes & Chronology

The peopling of the Americas — when, how, and by whom the Western Hemisphere was first colonized by modern humans — is one of the most actively debated questions in archaeology, genetics, and paleoanthropology, with the

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INTERDOC_26 — Forbidden Archaeology and Paradigm Gatekeeping

Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962) demonstrated that science does not progress by smooth accumulation of knowledge but through paradigm shifts: periods of "normal science" (working within accepte

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L_2_05 Genetics & Origins

L_2_05 — Americas Peopling Genetics

The peopling of the Americas is one of the clearest cases where ancient DNA and archaeology have converged to overturn an older narrative. The core model now favored by genetics is that the main ancestry of Indigenous Am

Americas peopling Beringia Clovis pre-Clovis Native American genetics mtDNA haplogroups

L_2_09 Verified Genetics & Origins

L_2_09 — Genetic History of the Americas: Clovis to Contact

The genetic history of the Americas — from the initial peopling of the New World to the devastating population collapse after European contact — is one of the most intensively studied and rapidly evolving areas of paleog

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H_2_15 Verified Suppression & Thesis

H_2_15 — Re-Dating Controversies: Sites Older Than Thought

The history of archaeology and prehistory is punctuated by re-dating controversies — cases where new evidence or improved dating technology revealed that sites, artifacts, or traditions were significantly older than prev

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H_2_06 Suppression & Thesis

H_2_06 — Successful Paradigm Shifts in Archaeology: Cases Where Orthodoxy Was Wrong

The history of science contains well-documented cases where firmly held orthodoxies were overturned by new evidence, often after decades of resistance from established authorities. Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientif

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F_1_16 Credible Lost Connections

F_1_16 — Coastal Migration Hypothesis: Kelp Highway and Pacific Rim

The coastal migration hypothesis (also known as the "Kelp Highway" hypothesis) proposes that the initial human colonization of the Americas occurred not via the traditional ice-free corridor through the interior of North

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F_1_12 Verified Lost Connections

F_1_12 — Beringia: Land Bridge, Migration, and Lost Landscape

Beringia — the vast landmass that periodically connected northeastern Asia to northwestern North America across what is now the Bering Strait and the shallow Chukchi and Bering Seas — was one of the most consequential ge

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