First Peoples of America

Eva was a hunter-gatherer and the first American discovered. Her remains were found in an underwater cave in the Yucatan. Her burial was important because the caves were considered portals to the spirit world. She had a ritual burial, the earliest sign of spirituality in America.

Eva was identified as a female because of her hip bones and delicate skull, which are indicative of a female.

The “Erratic” boulders were not where they should be, 100 miles north. They got trapped between enormous ice sheets, which pushed the rock south and marked the passageway into North America.


Discovering Eva proves that Clovis were not the first people in the Americas. The oldest Clovis was found 13,000 years ago; Eva’s remains were 13,500 years old. In addition, fungal spores in dung declare how many animals were on the landscape. Mud samples taken from ancient lakebeds prove that ancient Mammoths and Mastodons were abundant 15,000 years ago and down in numbers 14,800 years ago. By 14,500, they were gone.

John Erlandson’s alternate theory on how people traveled south toward the Yucatan is that people may have come by boat 16,000 years ago from the Pacific Northwest. Kelp is abundant and nutritious along the coast. The theory is that people paddled down a kelp highway down the Pacific Coast to Patagonia, then followed any large river. The land provided all resources needed.

inspiration for Kennewick Man’s reconstruction 

Source: smithsonianmag.com

The Kennewick man was shot in the pelvis. His right hip bone has an embedded spear point. This man’s main diet consisted of seals, indicating that he was from central Alaska, not where he was found.

The Kennewick man’s skull differs from a Native American’s because his cranium is longer and narrower, and he has a wider face resembling a Polynesian. Native Americans have broad cheeks and short, broad cranium.


Genetic evidence revealed that “The Ancient One” is closer related to Native Americans than anyone else in the world. It was thought that 8000 years ago, broad, round skull people wiped out the first wave of people related to the Kennewick Man. However, genetic testing revealed that there were not two separate waves but the same gene pool as modern Native Americans.


Factors in the change of our skulls were the altercations in our diet and the fact that we did not have to be as self-sufficient. In addition, relying on other people changed and shrunk our brains and, as a result, changed our skulls.