Ancient stone tools reveal how early seafarers from Asia became America’s first people

Ancient stone tools reveal how early seafarers from Asia became America’s first people

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray Pacific. The air was sharp, the sea restless. They carried tools chipped from stone—thin, double-flaked blades that gleamed like ice. Those tools, forgotten beneath layers of earth, have begun to speak again. And the story they tell may rewrite the …