ABSTRACT
For many years, experts believed that Beringia was the sole point of entry for the first settlers in the Americas. However, the discovery of “Kennewick Man” in Washington state in C.E. 1996 has led some scholars to challenge that notion. Archeologists believe that the 9,300-year-old remains of Kennewick Man are those of a caucasoid, suggesting the possibility of European origins. Anthropologist Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution, for example, believes that Kennewick Man may have come from Europe across the Atlantic by boat.
