Based on the modern and ancient DNA records, then, Asia was the homeland of the first Americans, not Europe, negating the recently proposed “Solutrean hypothesis,” that Clovis people were derived from an Upper Paleolithic population on the Iberian Peninsula. read more
The First Americans. Paelo-Indians are believed to be the first humans to populate the Americas, around 10,000 B.C. read more
The identity of the first Americans is an emotive issue for American Indians, who believe their ancestors were the first to inhabit the Americas. Controversy erupted after skeletal remains were found in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996. read more