Archaeology plot twist: these ancient footprints change everything

New archaeological discoveries are challenging our understanding of when the first people arrived in North America, rewriting the human story. For decades, scientists believed that the first human inhabitants of the Americas were the Clovis people, a group of hunter-gatherers who migrated across the Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska at the end of the last ice age, some 13,000 years ago. But recently, a few renegade archaeologists working at sites across Canada, the U.S.

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