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A Bold (maybe too bold?) Claim About the Arrival of Humans in N. America

April 26, 2017

A new paper in Nature argues that humans might have been harvesting mastodons in California as far back as 130,000 years ago. Here is an accessible summary. But see here for a skeptical takedown.

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