When Did Humans ACTUALLY Get to the Americas?

Improve your career using our code “SCISHOW” for 30% off on all TripleTen's programs! Sign up for a FREE TripleTen career consultation with the link: https://get.tripleten.com/scishow There are a lot of great debates in science, and a major one is when exactly humans reached the Americas. There's contentious footprints and wishy-washy stone tools, all of which has spurred some heated academic arguments. But the most controversial evidence called the Cerutti Mastodon suggests that, if it's real, humans may not have even been the first hominin species on our continent. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!   / scishow   Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: J.V. Rosenbalm, Bethany Matthews, Toyas Dhake, David Johnston, Lyndsay Brown, Alan Wong, Jeffrey Mckishen, Kaitlyn O'Callaghan, Reed Spilmann, Garrett Galloway, Friso, kickinwasabi, Gizmo, Jeremy Mattern, Blood Doctor Kelly, Eric Jensen, Jaap Westera, Matt Curls, Jp Lynch, Wesus, Chris Curry, Cye Stoner, Kevin Knupp, Piya Shedden, Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Jason A Saslow, Kevin Bealer, Joseph Ruf, Chris Peters, Chris Mackey, Steve Gums ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   Facebook:   / scishow   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scishow.bsky... #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/...