Many archeologists subscribe to the theory that North America was first populated by humans coming across a land bridge connecting modern day Alaska and Russia.
However, a conflicting theory touted in the ’90s claimed that Paleolithic Europeans crossing a Greenland ice bridge settled North America much earlier.
Based on the discovery of a stone tool, that less popular theory is largely being refuted by a new study recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
The new study refutes the very basis for the alternative theory, the discovery of an ancient stone blade with pieces of a mastodon skeleton at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay in the early 1970s. The discovery was made when a scallop-trawling vessel called the Cinmar hit a snag off the coast of Virginia.
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