Archaeologists find evidence of early maritime explorers
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 19:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Sites on the Channel Islands indicate that seafarers may have been among the first settlers of North America.Delicate stone arrowheads and tools and a wide variety of marine and bird skeletons unearthed on the Channel Islands off the coast of California provide strong evidence that North America was settled by two separate groups of immigrants some 13,000 years ago, one that came overland from Asia and a second group of maritime explorers who sailed along the coast.