The existence of Paleoproterozoic rifted margins of many Archean cratons indicates that they were once part of larger land masses. While some suggest that these land masses comprised an Archean supercontinent, contrasting geological records between different clans of cratons have inspired an alternative hypothesis where cratons were clustered in multiple, separate “supercratons.” Paleomagnetic poles from some Archean cratons including a new ca. 2.62 Ga pole from the Yilgarn craton is compatible with either two successive but ephemeral supercontinents or two long-lived supercratons across the Archean-Proterozoic transition (Liu et al., 2021). Neither interpretation supports the existence of a single, long-lived supercontinent, suggesting that Archean geodynamics were fundamentally different from subsequent times (Proterozoic to present), which were influenced largely by supercontinent cycles.