Scientists have put forward a new hypothesis of settling America by kayaking
Scientists from Italy and the United States have put forward a new version of the settlement of America: by boats (kayaks) along a chain of islands in the Bering Sea. The research is published in the journal Comptes Rendus-Geoscience .
Scientists relied in their research on the results of retrospective mapping of the Bering Sea region over the past 30 thousand years. As a result, sea level modeling showed a large number of islands forming a huge archipelago up to one and a half thousand kilometers long. The chain reached the coast of Asia. According to scientists, from there people could move from island to island by boat until they reached a new mainland.
Previously, it was assumed that the first people came to North America either along the land isthmus, which was on the site of the modern Bering Strait, or along the edge of a glacier off the coast of Chukotka and Alaska.