The question of how people first came to North America is as complicated as when they arrived. With new evidence comes new theories and the dates are being revised constantly. While the colonization of the Americas remains a highly debated topic, the truth is that the exact timing of the first arrivals remains unknown. The crossing of […]
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Chumash Cash: The Saucers That Formed America’s First Economy
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy
A Californian researcher who studied tens of thousands of shells decorated by indigenous Chumash hunter-gatherers, has pushed back the origins of “cash” in the U.S. by over one thousand years. Dr. Lynn H. Gamble from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has completed an extensive review of the shell bead […]