Books of revelation: From old textbooks, we learn how much we didn’t know

Last week, history geeks drooled over a news break — inasmuch as 20,000-year-old "news" can "break" — claiming that the Americas' first inhabitants were not Siberians who wandered across a land bridge to Alaska, but rather Solutreans who paddled across the Atlantic Ocean. A number of archaeologists say that stone tools found near the Chesapeake Bay suggest a westward, rather than southward and eastward, expansion.

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