When did People First Settle the Americas?

The peopling of the Americas is one of the longest-running professional arguments in the history of Archaeology. So when did people first settle the Americas?

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References:
1 Waters and Stafford (2014) Ch31 in Paleoamerican Odyssey
2 Waters and Stafford (2007) Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of the Americas
3 Meltzer (1993) CH3 in Search for the First Americans
4 Martin (1967) Prehistoric Overkill in Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause
5 Meltzer (1993) CH5 Who were the First Americans? In Search for the First Americans
6 Meltzer (1993) CH4 Finding the Traces in Search for the First Americans
7 Mary Leakey (1984) CH11 The Partnership Breaks Down in Disclosing the Past
8 Erlandson, Braje & Graham (2008) How Old is MVII? – Seaweeds, Shorelines, and the Pre-Clovis Chronology at Monte Verde, Chile.
9 Fladmark (1979) Routes: Alternate Migration Corridors for Early Man in North America
10 Erlandson et al. (2007) The Kelp Highway Hypothesis: Marine Ecology, The Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas
11 Ardelean et al. (2020) Evidence of Human Occupation in Mexico Around the Last Glacial Maximum
12 Chatters et al. (2021) Evaluating Claims of Early Human Occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico.
13 Ardelean et al. (2021) Chiquihuite Cave and America’s Hidden Limestone Industries: A Reply to Chatters et al.
14 Bennett et al. (2021) Evidence for Humans in North America During the Last Glacial Maximum
15 Holen et al.(2017) A 130,000-Year-Old Archaeological Site in Southern California, USA
16 Haynes (2017) The Cerutti Mastodon
17 Steeves (2015) Decolonizing Indigenous Histories, Pleistocene and Archaeology Sites of the Western Hemisphere

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