UPDATE: Here's some more.
(More Kennewick/NAGPRA.)
Meanwhile (via Lynxx Pherrett), come claims of 30,000 year old footprints in Mexico. Cool, but, of course, controversial:
Dr Michael Faught, an expert in early American archaeology, was reserving judgment until evidence was published: "It would be significant if it were demonstrated, but usually those (early) sites don't hold up well," he told the BBC News website.But, he added: "There's more and more evidence that Alaska was not the only place people came into the continent."
And this bit in the last paragraph of the article caught my eye:
Dr Gonzalez [the leader of the footprint team] and ancient DNA expert Alan Cooper, of the University of Adelaide in Australia, have managed to extract genetic material from three molars belonging to Peñon Woman III, a 13,000-year-old partial skeleton from Mexico. The analysis is still underway.