1️⃣ It started with ancient Amazonian tribes, then Population-Y—shocking DNA ties to Sunda/Sahul southern natives! A hidden Australasian link in the Americas’ origins. #PeoplingAmericas #AncientDNA
2️⃣ White Sands footprints, validated over 5 yrs, shatter the Clovis-first dogma & fuel the Kelp Highway route surge. Humans here 22kya—way earlier than thought! #Archaeology #KelpHighway
3️⃣ This meant maritime life w/ watercraft along northern ice seas—impossible for Siberian mammoth hunters to pioneer w/o prior models. Coastal migrants led the way! #HumanMigration #IceAge
4️⃣ 2012 Britannica highlights circum-Pacific migrations; in Japan, ~42kya slow “Big Bang” after sea-crossing to N. Kyushu—echoes of the Pacific wave. Mind-blowing origins! #JapanArchaeology #PacificMigration