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Earliest evidence for humans in the Americas – BBC News
Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.
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One of the stone artefacts found at the cave
Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.
They suggest people were living there 33,000 years ago, twice the widely accepted age for the earliest settlement of the Americas.
The results are based on work at Chiquihuite Cave, a high-altitude rock shelter in central Mexico.
Archaeologists found thousands of stone tools suggesting the cave was…
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