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Glad you asked. I don't know that there was anything presented that you aren't already familiar with but to see it in video was illuminating. They actually showed Arlington Springs Woman's leg bone impacted in rock! Spent a great deal of time focusing on various stone tools, spear points,etc. The main thrust of the show dealt with the issue of Clovis people and whether they were the original inhabitants and where they came from. They spent time on The Topper site in SC, Monte Verde, Cactus Hill, VA, and the Nebraska find.

The Smithsonian director(Dennis?) proposed that Clovis people overlapped with the Solutrian people from Europe, and suggested that they were the ancestors of the Clovis. He believes that they took the Atlantic Ice Shelf route by boat to N America, based on the findings at Cactus Hill, VA which showed very similar arrow points.(This site is dated about 18K years ago.) The arrow points found evidence common traits of both the Clovis and Solutrian people. They also documented common cultural traits. That is the Smithsonian guy's theory but they offered the Beringia Corridor travel route, Pacific Coastal route, along with the Atlantic Ice Shelf theory. Ultimately, they admitted that any of these is plausible, and indeed, maybe all of them!

It concluded with an insigthful notion: "think of the ocean as a highway rather than a barrier" when speculating about how the first Americans arrived here. I think for too long we have sold ancient people short with regard to their capabilites. That was it... wish it had been a miniseries, but what can you do?