Kurile Islands (Geographic Keyword)

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The possibility of an additional channel of Old World influence into northern North America besides the traditional Bering Strait route has been raised from time to time by such scholars as Frederica de Laguna, Henry B. Collins, Robert F. Heizer and Wendell Oswalt, who saw such influence as originating along the northeast coast of Asia (including the Japanese islands) and traveling thence via the Aleutians. A significant amount of archaeological field work and collecting has been carried out by...