Word: adovasio
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Radiocarbon dating and other techniques indicate the campsite was occupied as long as 5,000 years before the Clovis culture appeared. Calling the results "unequivocal," McAvoy says they should "terminate the debate over whether Clovis was first or not." The Meadowcroft rock shelter's chief investigator, archaeologist James Adovasio of Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., agrees. "This is another indication that people were running around North America earlier than 13,000 years ago," he says...
...here? One growing possibility, long thought heretical: by boat along the eastern and western coasts of the Americas. A 12,500-year-old settlement in Monte Verde, Chile, for example, seems to have been reached most easily by water. The lack of any evidence of shipbuilding doesn't dissuade Adovasio. Says he: "You had southeast Asians sailing to Australia more than 50,000 years...
...scientists are willing to go so far. "I think people did have the capacity to sail across the Atlantic," says Adovasio, "but I still think 99.9% of the peopling of the Americas occurred through the interior or along the coast from the Bering Sea." Still, he leaves a tantalizing 0.1% to begin some new mythmaking...
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