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Stone tools trace Paleolithic Pacific migration into North America
A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's First Peoples, according to a paper published this week in the journal Science Advances.
The foundational narrative of the first inhabitants of America is being rewritten with stone letters. An exhaustive technological analysis of lithic tools, whose results are published in Science Advances magazine, provides the most solid evidence to date in favor of the theory that late Pleistocene human groups used a route [...]
Paleolithic Pacific Migration Revealed Through Ancient Stone Tools
New research employing advanced imaging and comparative analysis of lithic technologies has yielded compelling evidence linking the earliest inhabitants of the Americas to Northeast Asia via a coastal migration route during the last glacial maximum. This breakthrough study, published in the prestigious journal Science Advances, decisively challenges the long-held belief that the First Peoples primarily entered North America across the Beringian …
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