[Aztlan] MONTE VERDE SEAWEED AND THE KELP HIGHWAY

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

In an update on Tom Dillehay's seaweed find at Monte Verde, it is  
reported that seaweed is rich in iodine, zinc, and other nutrients  
and is gfood for cholesterol metabolism, bone strength and fighting  
infections and seaweed is still used by local populations in the  
area. There was a range of resources along the coast including the  
previously reported kelp forest or kelp highway that would have fed  
canoers from Asia over long distances. It now appears that the  
movement by canoe was slow and gradual along the Pacific coast of  
North America as the First Americans at Monte Verde lived inland and  
went for frequent coastal forays for sea borne food. This lends  
credence to the view that this kind of sophisticated inland/coastal  
movement would have taken a long time for the original American  
inhabitants to learn.

Science News Magazine has the story here;
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31865/title/Slowpoke_settlers

Here is a tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/5h3ppt

And here is an article from 2006 on the "Kelp Highway"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11451754/

Thanks to Dick Diehl for the heads up on the update.

Mike Ruggeri



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