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   >>>Only flat earth and creation believers still think there   
   >>>were no people in the Americas 40,000 years ago.   
   >>   
   >>"It's not that long since anthropologist orthodoxy held to much the same   
   >>opinion."   
   >>   
   >>When was that ever the concensus?  Until the last decades the clovis   
   model   
   >>was "orthodoxy" at around 11 k or so years.  That model has since been   
   >>displaced by newer information.   
   >   
   >"Thank you for answering your own question."   
   >   
   >You will understand the question given your "orthodoxy" bit above   
   following   
   >immediately after a claim for 40k.   
      
   "It's not that long since anthropologist orthodoxy held there were no   
   people in the Americas 40,000 years ago."   
      
   It is the current view.  20k or so is the most some would want to push it.   
   40k is not now nor has in past been a concensus or something even close to   
   it.   
      
   Clovis was displaced with multiple sources of new information.  Any   
   movement on the current concensus will require similar.  That is how   
   science works.   
      
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