I think the point of contention here is whether overland through the ice free corridor represents the first migration into the Americas beyond Beringia. It is pretty clear that it does not.
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DNA evidence does suggest a large in-migration during the time the ice-free corridor was open, but also corroborates the idea that there were other lineages already in the Americas at the time.
sep 1, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
i never said it did. neither did Abby. she said they got there by "walking over a land bridge that is now underwater" in the video which is still correct even if they used island hops to get down the coast because the interior was still impassable. like it's one sentence out of a paragraph.
sep 1, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Why include it at all, then? It’s a complicated and controversial topic. Better not to comment than to breeze through in a way that seems to validate inaccurate conventional wisdom (there are public schools in the U.S. still teaching that nobody lived in the Americas prior to the ice-free corridor)
sep 1, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Why give her the benefit of the doubt when she uses a slur the entire video and doesn’t talk abt Jefferson being a slave owner rapist?
sep 1, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
i don't agree with some parts of the video but people are spouting scientific falsehoods over a single *scientifically correct* sentence. i'm defending the scientific fact and not the video.
sep 1, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Scientifically correct? JFC
sep 1, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s no archaeological record to speak of! We can talk about what, logically, was likely to have happened, but there isn’t evidence and we’re not likely to ever find evidence one way or the other.
sep 1, 2025, 2:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The entire complaint here has to do with overconfidence in these sorts of statements, all to prioritize a harmful narrative with a motte and bailey where you excuse a harmful reductive narrative, will only defend that some people at some time traversed Beringia on foot, which was never disputed.
sep 1, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean it was one out of numerous ways travelled AND happened WAY before the particular migration she’s talking abt. It’s a way of saying indigenous ppl weren’t here as long as they were. Like that’s the point of that hypothesis as the main or only big migration moment for indigenous people
sep 1, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view