Kelp getting to the Americas?
33 min
In this episode we explore the ecology of the North Pacific Rim with Jon Erlandson, and specifically, the idea that kelp ecosystems may have acted much like a highway into the Americas, providing early coastal and maritime hunter-gatherers with familiar, dense, and predictable resources almost continuously from Japan all the way to the southern tip of South America **Please do not forget to rate and review the show** Have a question or comment? Email: hello@worldsbeforedesign.com Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeforeUsMedia/ Or click “Send us a message!” at the top of this page. Key Ideas Coastal Migration Hypothesis Kelp Highway Hypothesis Key People Jon Erlandson Key Places Daisy Cave Channel Islands Manis Mastodon Site Gault Site Debra L. Friedkin Page-Ladsen Paisley Caves Monte Verde Further Reading Braje, Todd J., Jon M. Erlandson, Torben C. Rick, Loren Davis, Tom Dillehay, Daryl W. Fedje, Duane Froese et al. "Fladmark+ 40: What have we learned about a potential Pacific Coast peopling of the Americas?." American Antiquity 85, no. 1 (2020): 1-21. Braje, Todd J., Tom D. Dillehay, Jon M. Erlandson, Richard G. Klein, and Torben C. Rick. “Finding the First Americans.” Science 358, no. 6363 (2017): 592–594. Erlandson, Jon M., Todd J. Braje, Kristina M. Gill, and Michael H. Graham. “Ecology of the Kelp Highway: Did Marine Resources Facilitate Human Dispersal from Northeast Asia to the Americas?” The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 10, no. 3 (2015): 392–411. Erlandson, Jon M., Michael H. Graham, Bruce J. Bourque, Debra Corbett, James A. Estes, and Robert S. Steneck. “The Kelp Highway Hypothesis: Marine Ecology, the Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas.” The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2, no. 2 (2007): 161–174. Gonzalez-Aragon, Daniel, Carola Flores, Felipe I. Torres, and Bernardo R. Broitman. “Tracing the Kelp Highway Hypothesis in South America: Poleward Shifts in Kelp Past Distribution and Archaeological E...
