Fifteen years ago, most experts would have agreed that the firstpeople in the Americas arrived by walking across a land bridge thatcrossed the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska. They thentraveled south through an open area of ground between great sheetsof ice that 1 across North America at thattime. Today, however, this theory is being challengedAn alternative theory suggests that instead of a single first migration,various groups of people came to the Americas at 2spaced well apart in time. Another theory proposes thatancient people might have 3 their way alongthe shoreline using kayaks, just as adventurous tourists do todayLooking at ancient tools found in America, archeologist DennisStanford noticed that their shape was similar to tools used bythe Solutrean culture of southwestern Europe. He thinks it is4 that people of that culture may havekayaked across the Atlantic from Europe to AmericaThe science of archeology often produces theories that are based onvery small bits of evidence. Today's archeologists know that being5 and holding on to one theory while shuttingout the others isn't good science. As new evidence is discovered that6 existing theories, they adjust those theoriesto explain the new facts.