A group of eminent archaeologists have come up with a new version of the settlement history of the Americas. Their discoverings reveal that first humans set foot on this continent 30,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, pushing back the date of their arrival by more than 15,000 years.

This documentary relates the exciting and controversial story of this paradigm shift by following research at major archaeological sites from Canada’s far north to the southern tip of Chile.

Determined to solve the mystery of the arrival of the first peoples in America, these international scientists challenge the prevailing theory and rewrite the history of human migrations on the scale of the entire continent.