| by Travis Uresk | November 3rd, 2025 |   Archaeological studies indicate that human colonization of North America by the Clovis culture dates back more than 13,000 years. Recent evidence suggests that people may have been on the continent around 14,700 years ago—and possibly even several millennia before that. The conventional view has been that the first migrants who populated the North American continent arrived across an ancient land bridge from Asia once the enormous Co