We all know the story of how people first populated the Americas around 14,000 years ago. Our ancestors walked across the Bering Strait land bridge back when Siberia and North America were connected during the last Ice Age. After fighting saber tooth tigers and harsh conditions, they found a way to eventually blossom into complex civilizations like the Maya and the Inca. Independent from the rest of the world until Columbus landed in the Caribbean in 1492. But what if that’s not the whole story?