Evidence grows that peopling of the Americas began more than 20,000 years ago

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4. Once people started building ocean going boats and rafts they went everywhere.

This started more than 40,000 years ago.

Evidence of coastal settlements were lost as the ice melted and the oceans rose.

Walking and sailing long distances, living off the various resources of the land and sea, is what humans do.

There was a tendency of white racist anthropologists to dismiss the technical achievements of everyone else. They'd rather believe people they regarded as "primitives" simply shuffled along very, very slowly.

All the stories of European "discovery" and conquest, the stories taught to so many U.S. schoolchildren, are shameful.