A Complicated Tale: The Ancient Indigenous People's Migration to South America
Not more than 25,000 years ago were North and South America populated. The fundamental idea of a north-to-south migration is turned on its head by new study and Neanderthal and Denisovan fossil data.
Aside from the poles, we are aware that the Americas were the last two continents that were peopled. We also know that neither North nor South America were inhabited for a very long time, just about 25,000 years, according to archeological evidence (maybe 37,000 years ago?). During the latter stage of the Pleistocene epoch, a time period known as the L…
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