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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
But it's not very likely, the uh, the areas through which one would pass in Siberia and in Alaska are fairly forbidding, and although I think we underestimate the distances people which might have traveled in ancient times, this doesn't seem a likely route for the kinds of contacts that we must postulate to explain the (apparently [I mean?]) this is diffusion we are talking about).

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Another possible way is for people to have come by boat but in a coasting manner up the coast of Asia across in the far North of the Pacific and down the West Coast. Now this is very, it's possible that this route was used, to some extent, one would, or it seems as if, coastal sailing was very important in the ancient world. The Chinese, the Indians, and the Arabians, used a coastal form of navigation in the, oh, in the first millennium A.D. and probably earlier. And it's possible that this was, kind of navigation was continued to the far north, and across, it wouldn't require the same skills that open ocean navigation would require. The only - major difficulty of course is that in the...

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