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Article: ANCIENT GOURD OFFERS NEW VIEW OF EARLY AMERICANS

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March 28, 2006
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University of Maine issued the following press release:

Decades of B movies and sensationalized TV specials have helped paint a picture of North America's first explorers that is decidedly less than flattering. Often depicted as knuckle-dragging, club-toting brutes, they fit well with the notion that that the first humans to set foot in the Americas got there by chance, wandering along behind a herd of eastbound mammoths or displaced musk oxen.

New research may finally be giving the continent's earliest immigrants some credit, however. While Hollywood would have us believe that early man simply took a wrong turn in ancient Siberia, a unique combination of archeology and genetics has shown ...

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