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Every student in the United States learns of the Bering Ice Bridge that carried the first Americans over from Asia around 12,000 years ago, but what if that wasn’t the whole story? Ancient projectile points and mitochondrial DNA evidence are revealing an earlier migration from Europe over the ice of…

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History


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    The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: a possible Palaeolithic route to the New World

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    The early peopling of the New World has been a topic of intense research since the early twentieth century. In this summary, Bruce Bradley and Dennis Stanford outline a theory of a Solutrean origin for Clovis culture and briefly present the archaeological data supporting the assertion that the earliest origin of people in North America may have been from south-western Europe during the last glacial maximum.

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    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2012 6:20


    Join Smithsonian Anthropologist Dr. Dennis Stanford as he untangles the prehistoric peopling of America by studying ancient projectile points and mitochondrial DNA evidence. Could these clues give us a better picture of early America?

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