Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas

Human footprints found in New Mexico are about 23,000 years old, a study reported, suggesting that people may have arrived long before the Ice Age’s glaciers melted.

https://nyti.ms/2XTy4px

Thanks for the fascinating report from the NYTimes, but for those who haven't access to the Times ...

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040381802/ancient-footprints-new-mexico-white-sa...

https://globalnews.ca/video/8225753/23000-year-old-human-footprints-found-in-new...

I'm now up in age, but for many, many years, and without formal training, I've doubted the theory that humans threaded their way through glaciers all the way to the southern tip of South America in less than 10,000 years, so it's great to find confirmation for ordinary common-sense intuition.

When it comes to early migrations (or, indeed, human evolution) Occam's Razor seems to break down. I'm more and more getting the idea that the simplest explanation is the least likely. Much more likely that people came several ways and times. Though, perhaps, ethnically-allied peoples from the same general area?

>3 alaudacorax: Yes, evidently the Navajo were late-comers to the South West, whereas the Hopi arrived centuries earlier.

>4 Rood:

Yes. In fact, archaeologists apparently think that the Navajo only beat the Spanish to the Colorado Plateau by a couple of centuries.

There have been outlier datings and possible habitations in the Americas for a long time. It seems maybe, finally, the threads are starting to align?