Someone Was In America 130,000 Years Ago. We Still Don’t Know Who
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What if someone was in America 130,000 years ago—and we still don’t know who they were? From the White Sands footprints to the controversial Cerutti Mastodon Site, this episode follows the evidence pushing the accepted timeline of the first Americans farther and farther back. If Cerutti is right, the biggest question may not be when humans arrived—but who arrived first.
What if humans were in America far earlier than we were taught?
In this episode, we follow the evidence from White Sands and the collapse of Clovis-first to the controversial Cerutti Mastodon Site in California, where researchers argued that someone may have been breaking mastodon bones around 130,000 years ago.
If that interpretation is right, the question is no longer just when the first humans reached America.
It becomes who they were.