Has anyone seen anything relating to a recent hypothosis that the frist peoples of the Americas may have crossed from Europe?
Discovery Channel Canada recently aired a program entitled "First Canadians" which deals with recent DNA evidence which purports to show a European migration some 17000 years ago.
http://discoverychannel.ca/sales_new...canadians.html
It's known as the Soultrean Atlantic Migration Theory - which argues that humans migrated across the frozen North Atlantic - and is slightly supported by some archaeological evidence - although not concretely because lithographic technology can express itself in similiar ways in seperate cultures.
This theory does not call into question the Alaskan Ice Corridor Theory, but adds a further complication to the pre-historic settlement of the Americas.
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