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Archeologists Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley argue that North America's first inhabitants came from Iberia…not Siberia. Around 21,000 years ago some very brave—and possibly very hungry—individuals crossed the North Atlantic by boat, surviving on marine animals and birds along the way, arriving at what's now the mid-Atlantic United States.5 This theory throws everything we've been taught about the identities of the first Americans into the trash—it's a complete reversal of the Bering Strait model we all grew up learning.

Like anyone putting forth a new academic theory, Stanford and Bradley were expected to write ...

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