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Eel Point that resemble later Chumash canoe-building tools* Boats
would have been needed to settle
this distant island in the first place,
and evidence for the antiquity of
maritime adaptations throughout
the archipelago, from Eel Point to
Daisy Cave, has persuaded Raab that
various paths led people to the New
World, including one by sea* Starting from somewhere in the north
Pacific, he argues, these "paleocoastal"

descendants and Pacific coast indigenous populations in Tierra del Fuego*
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a very early coastal migration*"
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