The 13,000-Year-Old Man Found On A California Island — And The Dating Test That Changed The Story Of America’s First Migration
Then they went home.
The island is the same island.
The channel is the same channel.
The stars over the Santa Barbara Channel are the same stars that a person saw 13,000 years ago, standing on that island shore, looking back across the water they had crossed.
We do not know what they thought, looking back.
We do not know what they saw ahead of them on the island.
We know only that they were there, and that being there required crossing the sea, and that the sea had already been crossed by the time the bones went into the sediment that held them for so long.