Pacific Islands and the Americas

Jose Betancourt

World History 1

Dr. Andrews

11/07/12

                                                            Pacific Islands

            In class we talked about the different roads or networks in India china, and Europe. One other road or network that was important was the Kelp Highway in the Americas. It is said that maybe the way in which many Asians came after the ice age 11 thousand years ago was through the oceans to the Americas. “It now appears that the northwest coast route opened a millennium or two earlier than the ice-free corridor and that the diversity and richness of coastal ecosystems after the LGM nay have created a ‘kelp highway’ that facilitated a maritime migration from northeast Asia into the Americas”(11, PREHISTORY). It is evident that there is a theory that some people or many people came to the Americas from East Asia. In many ways it seems that the waterways and coming to America through water may have made traveling and arriving faster.

            It is also interesting how seafaring happened thousands of years ago. (120). I see how sophisticated the American people were even before they were supposedly conquered. Now the idea and theory that there was some navigation and seafaring happening is not simply a theory with out evidence. “Support for these ideas is drawn form evidence of late Pleistocene maritime migrations across temperate pacific waters to Australia and New Guinea approximately 50,000 years ago”(22). In that case this theories seem true, although there is not yet totally accepted that the Pleistocene cultures had the ability to be in water or had the skill of Watercraft.