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The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests - livescience.com

LivescienceOctober 2, 2026
The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests - livescience.com
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The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports.

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