First-Ever Study of the Kelp Highway Reveals Groundbreaking Evidence
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For decades, the story of how the first Americans arrived in the New World has centered on a single idea: a land bridge across a frozen continent. But growing archaeological, geological, and genetic evidence tells a very different story—one that unfolds along the Pacific coast. This video explores the Kelp Highway hypothesis, a groundbreaking model suggesting that the earliest humans migrated into the Americas by sea, following rich coastal ecosystems filled with kelp forests, fish, shellfish, seabirds, and marine mammals. Long before inland routes were passable, these shorelines may have offered a reliable corridor of food, water, and shelter stretching from Asia to South America. Through remarkable discoveries on Cedros Island, submerged landscapes off the Oregon and California coasts, and ancient footprints preserved in British Columbia, archaeologists are uncovering clear evidence of early coastal lifeways. Fishhooks dating back more than 11,500 years, tools used to process agave
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