A remote ‘lost world’ off California‘s coast could rewrite the story of the first Americans.
Hidden among the Channel Islands are 13,000-year-old human remains, ancient settlements and evidence suggesting some of the continent’s earliest inhabitants may have arrived by boat rather than crossing an inland ice corridor.
If correct, the theory would overturn decades of conventional thinking that the first Americans crossed a land bridge from Siberia and traveled south through an ice-free corridor in western Canada.
Instead, it suggests Ice Age humans reached North America thousands of years ago by following a coastal ‘kelp highway,’ using boats to move along the Pacific
To provide well-rounded coverage and a breadth of insight across various events, we rely on contributions from several staff writers, each bringing their own area of expertise to our publication.
