The traditional view is that the first settlers walked across the Bering Strait, from Russia to Alaska, at the end of the last ice age around 11,500 to 11,000 years ago.
Sites in Pennsylvania, Chili and other places are bringing the 40,000 year figure into the realm of the “traditional view”.
3 posted on 07/05/2005 4:12:15 AM PDT by R. Scott
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