5,000 years ?
That is new evidence?
Whoah!
Could you lead me to a link ?
Most interesting!
http://www.merrittruhlen.com/files/1998c.pdf ~ first piece is nothing new. This was published in 1998 ~ there were a lot of other reports along this line going all the way back into the 1960s. In later literature you’ll read about the three major migrations ~ but you must remember if each one of them involved just 100 people the current population levels would still depend more on the breeding success of the descendants than on how many showed up at first landing.