London, March 1 (IANS) America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberia-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World, The Independent reported Thursday citing a study.
A remarkable series of several dozen European-style stone tools, dating back between 19,000 and 26,000 years, have been discovered at six locations along the US east coast.
The new discoveries are among the most important archaeological breakthroughs for several decades – and are set to add substantially to our understanding of humanity’s spread around the globe, the newspaper said.
Dennis Stanford, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter, the two leading archaeologists who have analysed the evidence, are proposing that Stone Age people from Western Europe migrated to North America at the height of the Ice Age.
They are presenting their detailed evidence in a new book – Across Atlantic Ice – published this month.
