Is That Really Part of the Initial Peopling of the Cribbian?

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The caribbean sea had so much a boat navigation during this period several thousand years ago, that i think one expert to it as an aquatic motor way. So there's just an incredible, kind of a sophisticated set of cultures thatare thate, that are migratingtes more recent years. I find myself in awe of when we think about just sort of the intelligence of these people. You know, tens of thousands of years ago, and what they were able to do, and how difficult it would have been for you or me.

Thousands of years ago, humans crossed a land bridge from Siberia into Alaska. They tried to move south, but a two-mile-high, coast-spanning ice wall stood between them and the rest of the continent.

How did they get past it?

Scholars have fought over that question for decades. But in her book, “Origin,” Jennifer Raff says breakthroughs in genetics have given scientists an entirely new understanding of how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the millennia that followed.

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