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Humans inhabited North America in the depths of the last Ice Age, but didn’t thrive until the climate warmed – The Conversation AU
Stone tools found in a cave in Mexico have archaeologists rewriting the human history of the Americas.
Humans lived in what is now Mexico up to 33,000 years ago and may have settled the Americas by travelling along the Pacific coast, according to two studies by myself and colleagues published today.
It has been commonly believed that the first people to enter the Americas were big-game hunters from Asia, who arrived after the last Ice Age around 13,000 years ago. This narrative is known as the Clovis first theory, based on distinctive stone tools produced by a people archaeologists call the Clo…
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