University of Oregon. (2006, February 21). 'Kelp Highway' May Have Helped Peopling Of The Americas. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 02 ...

Until the early 2000s, the widely accepted explanation for how humans came to the Americas was the “Clovis-first theory.” The idea was that 13,500 years ago, the space between what’s now ...

It was, in fact, the Kelp Highway. That was the earliest route. Here to fill in the details of that story and other short subjects in science is Annalee Newitz, tech culture editor at Ars Technica in ...

Today, a nearly continuous "kelp highway" stretches from Japan, up along Siberia, across the Bering Strait to Alaska, and down again along the California coastline, Erlandson said.

The 'kelp highway' theory. The research presented at the AGU23 meeting provides another clue on the origins of North American human migration. ...

Anthropologist group suggests first humans to the Americas arrived via the kelp highway. Nov 3, 2017. Warm oceans helped first human migration from Asia to North America. Dec 9, 2020.

In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway." Kelp forests are some of the world's richest ecosystems. They are found from Japan to Baja California and to South America's west coast.