For over 100 years, archeologists have been working to understand when people first arrived in the Americas. They have also been working to understand the origins of the first Americans and the paths they took to the New World. For many decades, Clovis was considered to be the oldest human occupation of the Americas. But decades of research, especially new archeological and genetic evidence published in the last 15 years, has rewritten our understanding of the first Americans. Much has been learned about the earliest inhabitants of the Americas from the Debra L. Friedkin and Gault sites along Buttermilk Creek in Central Texas. In this presentation, Dr. Michael R. Waters discusses these sites in the context of the early archeological record of North America.
Learn more about the topic from the Center for the Study of the First Americans: liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/
This video is part of the Texas Historical Commission's Texas Archeology Month 2020 Virtual Symposium. View other presentations in the series on playlists organized by region on our KZread channel.