Seaweed may provide clue to Americas earliest inhabitants!

A research which was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Chile National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development and the National Geographic Society of Chile reports about a new seaweed study as noted in the Journal of Science. This has been reported by the Associated Press. The team led by anthropologist Tom Dillehay is studying the remains found in Monte Verde which actually included seaweeds.

Researchers date the seaweed as more than 14,000 years ago, which is 1,000 years earlier than the well studied culture.

This would somehow provide evidence of people in the Americas by a millennium or more, with settlements in northern and southern areas.

The prevailing theory has been that people are followed by herds of migrating animals across ancient land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and move southward along the West coast.

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