Migration to the Americas
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The Clovis First Hypothesis
Pre-Clovis sites have been found far further south than would have been possible under the Clovis First Hypothesis. This new evidence has caused a rethinking of just how humans arrived in the Americas. One theory is known as the coastal migration route, which holds that humans were able to spread rapidly down the Pacific coast because they traveled by sea. The problem is there's no direct evidence of any sea transportation. There could have been multiple migrations over a period of thousands of years.
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