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By K. Kris Hirst, About.com Guide to Archaeology since 1997

DNA Sets New World Entrada at 18,000 Years

Friday July 25, 2003
A new article in the NYT reports that there is genetic evidence that humans arrived in the new world from Siberia no more than 18,000 years ago. The article, New World Ancestors Lose 12,000 Years, jointly written by Nicholas Wade and John Noble Wilford, also discusses the latest findings at Ushki Lake, recently redated 4,000 years younger than previously thought.

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