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Pre-Clovis Controversy


            
             For many years, history books have stated that the first Americans entered by way of the Bering land bridge during the last ice age, around 11,000-13,000 BC. These people who came over the land bridge and moved southward are generally called part of the Clovis tradition. Although very few archaeologists dispute the crossing or the predominance of the Clovis over the following centuries, recent evidence suggests other populations, which journeyed to the Americas before the last ice age. Ice age ancestors of modern Europeans may have crossed the Atlantic Ocean in kayaks to settle on the east coast, navigating along massive ice sheet that spanned from northern Europe to the American Nova Scotia. Seasonal camps could have been created along this ice expanse, which quite possibly could have had animals and grasses.
             Pre-Clovis sites are locations where either tools or habitation sites have been found that evidence a culture either earlier or different from the traditional Clovis. Skulls and tools have been found that resemble those found in Ancient Europe, and other tools have been unearthed that resemble those found in Ancient Siberia before the proposed Bering crossing. Although these sites are still embroiled in debate, they are gaining a larger following among archaeologists as excavation continues and more evidence in unearthed. .
             European culture would have migrated from east to west, which may explain why the Eastern artifacts are older than those found in the west. Or, it may turn out, there were two migrations. This may also explain how Clovis cultures expanded so rapidly across the Americas. Supporting the fact that the oldest tools were found in the eastern United States and western South America.
            


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