Did Homo Erectus make it to the Americas?

Recently, news has broken out among anthropologists of a find in Mexico that may revolutionize some aspects of our understanding of human origins:
story.news.yahoo.com.../ap/20041003/ap_on_sc/strange_bones_1

The find: Fragments from a skull that resembles that of a prehistoric species of human known as 'Homo Erectus'. Under conventional theories, Homo Sapiens were the first hominids to reach the new world.

Fascinating news item! I'm going to print it out and hand it to my archaeology prof -- who is among those who thinks that humans were here earlier than 13,000 years ago (the Clovis era.)

I do get the newsletter of the archaeologists (the article mentions Davis) who advance the pre-Clovis theory, and Texas A&M is a virtual hotbed of these rebels.