Clovis

Many archaelogists believe that the American continent was populated by Asian people who passed
Beringia, a land bridge that connected Eastern Asia with North America, and settled in the new land.
Beringia was crossed by people before the Ice Age as the sea level was low enough, but people couldn't
migrate inside the continent. After the ice age, as the ice was melting, the sea level grew so the land
bridge was flown. The miggrants could now go Southern. This theory of migration is called Clovis-first
theory.
Although many people accept that this is the way the American continent was populated, there are
some counterarguments. First of all, there are human artifacts dated long before those people, even
90.000 years BC, as all the miggrants over the Land Bridge settled between 30.000-11.000 BC.
Furthermore, there were found artifacts in Chile from 50.000 BC, long before first people were
soppoused to settle there.
Moreover, there are many artifacts that don't ressemble Native American artifacts, but they seem to be
from Pacific Islands or Japan. This shows that the population in the American continent is more likely
to be a combination of different cultures than to emerge from a single one. Also, DNA analyses show
that Siberian people may have migrated there 40.000 years BC.
All this shows that the American population is more likely a combination of different cultures than the
result of a migration over the Beringia during the Ice Age as Clovis-first theory claims.