Who Was First?
,” published in Discovery News, Oct. 21, 1999. Here is a quote: “I just think it’s going to be much more complex than we’ve thought in the past,” says Smithsonian Institution archaeologist Dennis Stanford. He believes that early Americans arrived at different times, from different places, and by different means–on foot, in boats, maybe even by dogsled. The views of Dr. Stanford from the Smithsonian Institution are further elaborated in the Academy Press Daily InScight on July 30, 2001, by Josh Gewolb, entitled “Skulls Suggest Two New World Migrations.” This article refers to Stanford’s controversial theory “that at least some immigrants may have come from Ice Age Europe.” “The environment in Europe was so harsh that land mammals were very rare,” Stanford said, “so they went to the beach.” If these ancient people had boats, it was natural that they should go to sea to look for food, and edging further north and west, they would eventually reach the fish-rich Grand Banks. “From there th
