Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas - The New York Times

Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas - The New York Times:



Scientists have debated the two theories, and in recent years support for the coastal route has grown from archaeological finds, such as 13,000-year-old footprints on an island in British Columbia. Now, geologists studying boulders and bedrock on Alaska’s southeastern islands have found evidence of an ice-free route some 17,000 years ago down the coast that would have allowed human travel.



“We’re not definitively saying they took the coastal route,” said Alia Lesnek, a graduate student at the University at Buffalo and lead author of the study. “We have some of the first direct evidence that that was something that could be done.”

Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay was disowned for condemning slave owners - The Washington Post

Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay was disowned for condemning slave owners - The Washington Post:



“He actually suggested that we reconsider Benjamin Lay’s membership,” said Loretta Fox, the Abington Meeting’s administrator. “Maybe we could right the wrong done to him.”



But first, they had to come to terms with Lay. Some had misgivings. Was Lay the eccentric “little man” with a “diseased” intellect, as some historians portrayed him? Or was he the revolutionary anti-slavery hero portrayed by Rediker?