They walked north from the many several hundred thousand year old sites in South America.
“They walked north from the many several hundred thousand year old sites in South America.”
I think so too. I think they came by boat from both the North and the South. Fell’s cave in Tierra del Fuego is older than they will admit because it would change the official narrative and show that a southern migration is also very possible.
Both the Antarctic circumpolar ocean current and the wind currents travel due east right to Tierra del Fuego from both Australia and New zealand. The ocean current flows at .06 nautical miles an hour, and the wind is an average of 50 nautical miles an hour. This means without even needing to paddle, just floating like a bobber it would take less than 90 days to get from Australia to Tierra del Fuego. “But what would they eat???” Same thing the norther Inuit eat now. “What would they drink???” Melt ice just like the Inuit do now. “How did they make fire???” Blubber oil just like the Inuits do now.
Early man was just as intelligent and adaptive to survive polar conditions as the Inuit are now. So a Southern water crossing and migration is not at all impossible as they claim.
:^) There are those (who obviously have their own ethnic axes to grind) who claim "they" have always been here, that their ancestors were made in the Americas, and didn't come from anywhere else.
The problem of course is, Canada and the Arctic is known to have been repopulated by sea, probably during the centuries AD, and all the so-called 1st nations merely claim to have always lived where the current ones (and alleged ones) live. By and large that isn't true by a long shot.
A continuity of human navigation is a threat to that paradigm.