The standard school curriculum teaches that Native Americans descended from a small band of Paleo-Indian people from north-east Asia who walked across the now-vanished Beringia land-bridge between Siberia and Alaska
America’s First People Migrated East From Island to Island
For as long as science has existed researchers have debated, and often argued, as to when, where, and how America’s first people arrived on the continent and moved south from there to South America .
The most conventional theory was that the first migrants who populated the North American continent arrived across an ancient land bridge from Asia after the enormous Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets receded. This event created a navigable corridor nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) long that emerged east of the Rocky Mountains in present-day Canada.
Since the early 1930s, the Clovis-first theory has maintained the first Asians came into the Americas via an ice-free corridor about 13,000 BC. However, over the last 20 years several major archaeological sites have been dated to thousands of years before the Clovis people arrived in North America.
Scientists discovered geographic formations in the Gulf of Alaska that have not been previously reported in scientific
literature
The team says they were once above the surface during the last Ice Age and acted as stepping stones for migrants from Asia coming to North America
They were closely spaced islands in the Gulf of Alaska that stretched as far as Middleton Island, which was followed by a 124 mile gap and then more islands
Researchers say that paddlers could have used the chain of islands as rest stops
The study also proposes that most of North Americas first settlers traveled this route, rather than the long-held idea that they crossed the Bering Strait Bridge