All of the Following Are True About the Peopling of the Americas

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true about the peopling of the Americas EXCEPT that

A) the Clovis people were not the first settlers of the Americas.
B) the first migration(s) of people into the Americas may date back 18,000 years.
C) analysis of DNA suggests that the Americas were settled by more than one haplogroup-a lineage marked by one or more specific genetic mutations.
D) researchers calculate that it would have taken from 600 to 1,000 years for the first Americans and their descendants to travel by land from the southern part of the Canadian ice-free corridor to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America-a distance of more than 8,680 miles.
E) The first migration of people into the Americas reached the continent's southwestern coasts from the Pacific islands.