News Stories  How Did First Americans Get Here?  Archeologists
have long insisted that people first came to the Americas by
crossing the Bering land bridge from Siberia between 10,000 and
18,000 years ago. However, most indigenous people in both North
and South America deny this. South Americans say they came from
the sea and many Native Americans say they came from the South.
Now it's been discovered that they couldn't have crossed the
Bering Bridge, since it didn't exist then.  Allison M. Heinrichs
writes in the Los Angeles Times that archeologists carbon dated
materials found at the Ushki site in Siberia, which is thought
to be the original starting point for crossing the Bering land
bridge into North America, and found it's much younger than they
previously believed. This means the first Americans couldn't
have used it to migrate overland during the last great ice age.
The Ushki site is the remains of a community of hunters who
lived around Ushki Lake in northeastern Russia that is now known
to be only ab