• THE PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS

    Before we talk about the peopling of PEI it will be a good idea to contemplate, for a bit, the peopling of the world, and how we fit in near the end of a long and complicated process. This map clearly shows our common beginnings in Africa about 200 million years ago and how, 45 thousand years ago in Europe, our ancestors were already in place. Looking East, we can see a complicated migration process that ends up, 25 thousand years ago, massed up on Beringia, on the bottom of the Bering Strait, revealed by the earth’s rebound following the melting of the thick glacial ice mass. Here, it has…