One of the archaeologists whose lifetime work was almost overlooked was Jacques Cinq-Mars, who worked at the Canadian Museum of History in Quebec. From his excavations between 1977 and 1987 in the Bluefish caves, located in the territory of the First Nation Van Tat Gwich’in, in the northwest of Yukon Cinq-Mars uncovered evidence that the Clovis people were not the first to populate the Americas. Through his research, he concluded that hunters had used the site some 24,000 years ago. But Cinq-Mars, who died in November 2021, was greeted with skepticism and his findings have been questioned for decades.

Today, the Clovis theory model is discarded among most archaeologists and the oldest sites are widely accepted. But the commitment that some archaeologists still maintain with this hypothesis means that the archaeological field work alternative to the Clovis theory still has a long way to go.

An example of this ongoing rectification is the research you are conducting Lauriane Bourgeon (left), a French archaeologist from the University of Kansas. Bourgeon has spent much of his career reexamining and dating the collection of remains found in the Bluefish Caves, including a small number of lithic tools and 36,000 animal bones, which serve to clarify the history of the controversial enclave east.

Source: What were humans doing in the Yukon (Canada) 24,000 years ago? – Archeology, Ancient and Medieval History – Terrae Antiqvae