I've never heard of it being controversial, but I know that from the 1950s or so to now the estimated migration date has been pushed back from 10,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago. We're pretty definitively sure that the people who first settled the Americas came from Asia, whether it was over land or by boat seems like splitting hairs to me.
I heard a native guy complaining about the Bering strait theory on a podcast. If it's simply a religious thing (some religions hold that the indigenous people here were originally formed with the Earth) then I wouldn't be a New-Atheist-style dick about it but I also wouldn't really care. But maybe that theory has some hidden genocidal history, wouldn't be the first time.
I've never heard of it being controversial, but I know that from the 1950s or so to now the estimated migration date has been pushed back from 10,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago. We're pretty definitively sure that the people who first settled the Americas came from Asia, whether it was over land or by boat seems like splitting hairs to me.
Yeah it seems that way to me too.
I heard a native guy complaining about the Bering strait theory on a podcast. If it's simply a religious thing (some religions hold that the indigenous people here were originally formed with the Earth) then I wouldn't be a New-Atheist-style dick about it but I also wouldn't really care. But maybe that theory has some hidden genocidal history, wouldn't be the first time.