Archive for March, 2014 The Clovis People: “the final shovelful of dirt” on who they were DNA analysis reveals the truth about the origin of the Clovis people… At last, archeologists have resolved the debate over the first Americans (hint: they walked). Then they screwed up a perfectly good answer to an ancient puzzle. “We finally have a definitive answer to the timeless mystery of where the First Americans came from: They walked across the Bering Straits from Asia (and not from southwest Europe paddling kayaks across the frigid Atlantic sea). The first people to successfully colonize North America are called “Clovis,” and they made their appearance in the lower…