What Bones, Genes, and Space-Singed Rocks Tell Us About the Peopling of the Americas
Two new studies add to the emerging narrative of how the first people arrived in and settled the Americas.
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by Zach Zorich
May 31st, 2018 | 1,000 words, about 5 minutes
For more than 6,000 years, the ancestors of the first people to settle the Americas were confined in Beringia, a now-sunken landmass linking Asia and Alaska, behind a wall of ice that stretched thousands of kilometers across northern North America. The first to migrate to the Americas were the ones to get past the glaciers. Then, these migrants and their descendants spread across the continents, reaching as far as Tierra del Fuego, at the very southern tip of South America. Two new research studies add to the developing picture of how this may have happened.
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