The Settlement of the Americas: New Discoveries

I don’t care that this dropped at 12am, I am watching it in full.

The settlement of america and Australia and the pacific islands are some of the most compelling aspects of humanity's journey and it makes me sad most ppl don't care or understand it....

You had me at "I thought I knew what was talking about back then and I actually did, but a lot has changed since then"

The finding of that ancestral Native American DNA near Lake Baikal is really fascinating, partly because there’s linguistic evidence that the Yeniseian people of Siberia are related to the various Na Dené groups in North America, and because Lake Baikal flows into the Yenisei River which these people are named after (though they don’t call themselves that).

Fascinating to hear more information about this. It's great to hear updates on things we've already learned as sometimes it can give more context and understanding as to what happen.

Ancient Americas quickly becoming my favorite YT channel <3 Thank you so much for the love you put into your research and easily digestible videos!

A refreshing and measured analysis of the work of many archaeologists in the Americas.

"Now I'm going to address some controversies and 'alternate' theories." Ah yes, the Good Part! :D

I never heard so in depth about the Beringian burials you mentioned. Thank you for sharing. The fact that the sea level changed so much make this so dang difficult to find out about! And awesome sharing that evidence about the dog DNA!!! That was very valuable as evidence of dispersal routes!

5:00 some bros got into a fist fight. Knocked some teeth, thus giving us vital evidence. Thanks my two dudes.

Excellent. "Don't completely understand ..." is a brilliant understatement. Just recently, a paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that forecloses on the idea that the "ice-free corridor" could have been an entry route to the lower latitudes. The authors employed cosmogenic isotopes on surface rocks from the "ice free corridor" to argue that the IFC did not open until less than 14,000 BP. That reduces the possible route(s) to one (or possibly two). The IFC may still have been how the concept of fluting projectile points reached Alaska from the continent south of the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets. One observation about the original dates attributed to White Sands and the hypothetical "failure" to account for the freshwater (not marine) reservoir effect is that the effect is generally considered during the dating work. The effect for the White Sands footprints would be the "fresh water" reservoir effect, if there was one, would require a source of "fossil" carbon, which the park environment doesn't offer. The sands are gypsum, a sulphate mineral, with no carbon in it. So, any local plants would be employing atmospheric C02 for photosynthesis. The original study considered the possibility of a "hard water" effect and concluded it was unlikely.

Love your videos man keep it up. My family and I are of Zapotec Peoples from Oaxaca Mexico, and our village is by the mountains isolated from Civilization. This is one of the main reasons our people still practice their Native Customs such as their language, food, etc. Since migrating to the States, people have mistaken us for being from the Philippines, Japanese, and in some cases Polynesian.

Live a while in arctic conditions and your whole understanding of survival requirements changes. Seasonal routes open and close as the weather changes. And humans could and can travel fairly great distances by foot or water in short periods of time. Travel over ice, over ice sheets, over mountains and over glaciers combined with water travel removes traditional “restricted routes”. Humans are curious animals, always in search of different and better conditions of living. We do our ancestors a disservice when we underestimate how populations interacted with their environment and overestimate the barriers to their movements. They did not need a land bridge when they knew perfectly well how to travel and survive on winter ice and open coastal waters.

I really like your videos. You are one of the few channels that can keep my undivided attention. It`s nice that you always include other theories with pros and cons too. Greetings from germany!

YESSSS I've been waiting for this update for so long, thank you!

This is probably my favorite video of yours. Super interesting topic covered in a really responsible way

This is one of the top 9 channels on YouTube. Thanks a bunch Big Dog!

babe wake up, new AA vid just dropped

Your conclusion deserves a standing ovation and a H-- YES!

thanks as always for your presentations, and your honesty in reference to the gaps in our knowledge!