March 2016 From Shore to Sea Lecture: A Deep History of California’s Northern Channel Islands Part 1

A great piece of real archeology. My guess as to why they landed on Santa Rosae? "No Grizzly Bears"...

Great presentation! I wish there was more quality scientific research presented like this, that disproves the Clovis First model. I know that I’m academic circles that the Clovis First model has been discredited and replaced with the coastal model of the peopling of North America, in contrast to the open corridor. I’m a bit biased myself, not like the surfing and making ancient replicas of boats like the presenter, but for myself, I live in what was the ice free corridor, in Northern Canada. And I have access to local presentations and scientists who study Beringia and all the sites here. And they all suggest a much more interesting story than Clovis First. So, I really appreciate scientists who pushed against the vastly held model, to seek out true stories based in actual science.

great gift thanks

great stuff Dr. E i hike out there.

With the discovery of the White Sands footprints, it seems some revisions of this lecture are necessary. I suspect early humans were present in the Americas a few thousand years before even the White Sands people.

Very interesting and informative. By the way, what 's the family name of "Kenji", Japanese researcher in Oregon at that time ?

Thanks for this. Columbus and the Norse arrived in boats; makes sense the original first Americans came that way.

I suppose one problem with academic science is that, like many other areas of life, credibility is awarded to people of presumed power and knowledge, and dogma, true or false, is the result. And, as a scientist myself, I've never understood why speakers place a printed passage on the screen during a talk while also at the same time talking about something even slightly different Even if the talking is related to what's on the screen, it still forces the audience to try to concentrate on two things at once. Now if the presenter's purpose is to distract people from the textual or spoken information (or both), then of course this is quite a good technique. Myself, I don't do that. If I place text on the screen, I read it word for word for emphasis and to help the audience absorb the information, not be distracted by it.

Why does the speaker smack his lips together so often? It’s annoying as heck and I don’t understand what the purpose of that even is.