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First Americans May Have Arrived by Boat | Texas News
New evidence is rewriting how we think humans first reached the Americas—suggesting they may have sailed here, not walked. Discoveries on California’s Channel Islands, including 13,000-year-old bones known as Arlington Man, point to coastal travel. The “Kelp Highway” theory proposes early peoples followed Pacific kelp forests as a navigational guide, avoiding ice sheets. With consistent kelp ecosystems from Japan to California and support from sites like Chile’s Monte Verde, this maritime route challenges the long-held Bering Land Bridge model—and reveals our ancestors as skilled ocean…
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