1. Rethinking Siberian Americans.
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Choi, Charles
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PREHISTORIC peoples , *CHARCOAL , *RADIOCARBON dating , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL dating , *EVOLUTIONARY theories , *HUMAN beings - Abstract
The earliest people in the Americas are thought to be the Clovis (named after the location near Clovis, N.M., where fluted spear points characteristic of the population were first discovered) that date back 13,600 years. Evidence that the Clovis settlers came from Asia was unearthed at the Lake Ushki site in Russia, where charcoal in a grave there was previously dated back 16,800 years. After reanalysis, researchers in the U.S. and Russia now find the Ushki charcoal is only about 13,000 years old, indicating that the two groups lived concurrently.
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- 2003
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