Natives who settled the Americas (PBS)

The ancient tribes that settled the Americas | First Peoples | Full Episode 1 | PBS

(PBS) PBS is an American public broadcast service. Oct. 18, 2024: As early humans spread out across the world, their toughest challenge was colonizing the Americas because a huge ice sheet blocked the route. It has long been thought that the first Americans were Clovis people, who arrived 13,000 years ago. But an underwater discovery in Mexico suggests people arrived earlier — coming by boat, not by foot.

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ABOUT: First Peoples. See how the mixing of prehistoric human genes led the way for our species to survive and thrive around the globe or across the plane. Archaeology, genetics, and anthropology cast new light on 200,000 years of history, detailing how early humans became dominant.