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The Earliest Americans (2 of 2)

Caption: Excavation of the Schaefer mammoth in Wisconsin, which is thought by archaeologists to date to about 14,500 years ago. This image relates to an article that appeared in the March 14, 2008, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Ted Goebel and colleagues at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, was titled "The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas."

Credit: Image courtesy of D. Joyce

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