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First Americans May Have Arrived by Sea | Mesa News
New evidence is rewriting the story of how the first people arrived in the Americas—suggesting they may have sailed along the coast, not walked across a land bridge. Discoveries on California’s Channel Islands, including 13,000-year-old human remains found in 1959, sparked a revolution in archaeology. Once overshadowed, these finds were later confirmed with advanced dating tech, fueling the “Kelp Highway Theory.” This theory proposes early migrants followed coastal kelp forests for food and navigation, dodging inland glaciers. With even older sites popping up in Chile, the coastal migration…
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