America: a new history of the first people (Arte): Who were the first Americans?

From the Canadian Far North to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, central Mexico, and Brazil’s Mato Grosso, new harmonious but still controversial archaeological discoveries have unearthed a new paradigm in American prehistoric archeology: the first humans on the continent, approximately from our era. It may date back 30,000 years, or about 15,000 years before the widely accepted and taught thesis…

According to most archaeologists, the settlement of America dates back to 13,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer populations followed their prey from Siberia, crossed the Bering Strait on foot, and then covered in ice. But in Brazil, in the Santa Elina region, several French-Brazilian archaeologists, Denis and Agueda Vilhena Vialou, discovered the tiny bones of a now-vanished animal, the giant sloth. And these are cut and drilled as if they were used by humans to make jewellery. According to dating methods, these objects are 27,000 years old. This means that the first Americans will arrive much earlier than we thought. Now it is something that will make the scientific community uneasy, wondering whether these men also came on foot from the Bering Strait, or whether they came to America via the Pacific Ocean, by raft or by canoe…

America: new date of the first humans: Saturday, February 25th at 20:50 on Arte

FREDERICK RAPILLY