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To: elmatador who wrote (91788)6/23/2012 3:57:22 AM
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First Americans may have been Alaska beachcombers
Doug O'Harra | Jun 22, 2012
alaskadispatch.com



The massive glaciers of the last ice age retreated from an island off the Alaska Peninsula much earlier than once thought, suggesting that people could have been migrating along Alaska’s ice-free southern coast for millennia before any corridor opened over land.

The findings — based partly on analysis of ancient pollen in lake sediments on Sanak Island — offers dramatic indirect support for a controversial theory that North America was settled by sea and not by land.


Instead of some wave of spear-chucking, bison-hunters trudging grimly across the steppes of Beringia through a gap in continental ice, the First Americans could very well have been sophisticated Alaskans paddling boats — savvy beachcombers who fished, hunted marine mammals and scavenged tide pools as they hopped island to bight and made their way from Asia into the New World.

Alaska’s rich coastal bounty — after all, the ocean sets a fine table twice each day — may have pulled these prehistoric immigrants farther east and south each year.
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