(September 28, 2011 at 12:48 am)Rhythm Wrote: Wasn't there some research into that though, to the effect that conditions would not have been favorable for that sort of migration at that time?
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3721/J080527
But this study talks about a 'migration' which is not what Stanford has envisioned. A small group of hunters working their way along the edge of the ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum, hunting sea mammals and hanging out on the ice floes. They would have been able to support themselves from the sea with one exception. When their stone tools wore out they would have needed to find a replacement source.
But it all hinges on the boats.