Evidence Found for Earlier New World Inhabitants

It is the thought of most anthropologists that man first walked across Beringia about twelve thousand years ago. This group of individuals would be the first Homo sapiens to set foot in the New World . Based on new scientific discoveries of humans inhabiting South America prior to one thousand three hundred years ago there is new speculation as to the method of travel of the first American inhabitants. This new evidence is a site called Monte Verde in Chile that dates to twelve thousand five hundred years ago. It is now proposed that travelers may have sailed down America ’s west coast twenty five thousand years ago. It would have been impossible to reach America any other way during this time due to the glacier blocking Beringia, which lasted until twelve thousand years ago. This is not the first time that a site has been dated as older than twelve thousand years ago. All of these other sites have been found to have been dated inacurratly. If this site is dated as inaccurate than the theory of prehistoric boat travel to the new world will be proven untrue.

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Source: Science  Daily