Research Casts New Light on History of North America
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 10:29
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students lends support to evidence the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, rather than crossing a Bering Strait land-ice bridge. Valparaiso's research shows the Kankakee Sand Islands - a series of hundreds of small dunes in the Kankakee River area of Northwest Indiana and northeastern Illinois - were created 14,500 to 15,000 years ago and that the region could not have been covered by ice as previously thought.