A CIVILIZATION THAT DISAPPEARED 30,000 YEARS AGO....Who were the first people to colonize the Americas? Until very few years ago, it was believed that the first American culture was that of the Clovis, the ancestors of the Native peoples of North America. Also, humans were thought to have arrived on that continent no earlier than about 14,000 years ago. Thus, in this "reconstruction" of history, the earliest civilizations would have been the NorthAmericans, while the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas would have come much later....Recent discoveries, including DNA analysis, on the other hand, have shown that once again archaeology was wrong. The first civilizations in the Americas were Central and South American peoples, at least 15,000 to 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. And these peoples came VIA SEA (yes, you read that right, "via sea"), from Siberia and Sundaland (the continent that disappeared due to the thaw, which corresponds to present-day Indonesia and surrounding islands)....In fact, around 2020 some researchers published the results of the discovery of human remains in Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico. Excavations were started in 2012. More extensive excavations were carried out in 2016 and 2017. The work was published in the journal Nature. What was found in the cave completely revolutionized the opinion of archaeologists. The study, presented by Ciprian Ardelean, an archaeologist at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico), and his colleagues, suggests that people lived in central Mexico at least 26,500 years ago. The professor says, "It takes centuries, or millennia, for people to cross Beringia and arrive in the middle of Mexico." Later, he adds, "It takes many years of previous presence for them to get there if they came by sea or land." This means that humans were likely in Central America long before 30,000 years ago....But that's not all. Another research center has found that the native peoples of Central and South America have not just one ancestor, but two. As it were, they have a "mother people," who are identified as "population Y," and who are the original inhabitants of Sundaland from the distant past, around the time of the Thaw. But they also have a "father people," who are the Iñupiat, from Siberia....These discoveries revolutionize from the ground up all archaeological beliefs about the past of the Americas. To whom belonged allore the oldest ruins found in those lands? What past civilization was able to create geopolymers atop the Andes? Who created the gigantic Nazca drawings, and more importantly, for what purpose? And most importantly: if people 30,000 years ago were able to travel from Australia to Central America, what prevented them from going from Central America to Egypt, as several pieces of evidence now seem to indicate? We give you some answers.Credit - 12,794 Years ago