Anthropologists now claim that the Indians were not the first inhabitants of America,if this is so, who were?

Question

the first inhabitants then ?

Answer 1

I think the standard hypothesis remains the Bering strait land bridge migration, and most of the debate has to do with the timing and specific origins of waves of migration, and also the possibility of pre-Clovis coastal migrations establishing multiple origins for different regional populations in North America, and inviting speculation about some remarkably early boat travel around the Pacific rim. There are some far more speculative conjectures about central European populations somehow arriving in the Americas well before the Clovis migrations, but that's very controversial.

Answer 2

The 'Native Americans' (as you refer to as "Indians") are part of the same mass migration of people that traveled over the Aleutians and came to the northern plains of what would eventually be called North America. The 'Inuit' (Inuit means "the People" in their native tongue) remained in the extreme northern regions where they remain to this day.

Those same peoples stayed and became what you incorrectly called an "Indian".

There have been reports of something akin to a Neanderthal in North America, but honestly.... who has the bragging rights?

Answer 3

Aleutians

Answer 4

Many kinds of animals