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Granite Falls Bison Kill site
Bison kill site has much to tell about first Minnesota inhabitants
Some 20 years ago, the Petersons discovered that Minnesotas first inhabitants had this all figured out at least 7,000 years before the first car-deer crash.
Except it wasnt 100- to 200-pound whitetail deer that brought Minnesotas first people to the Petersons three-acre parcel south of Granite Falls, Minn. They were hunting a now-extinct species of giant bison known as the bison occidentals.

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Although there is probably a treasure trove of information to be unearthed at Janet and LeRoy Petersons bison kill site, the prospects for another archaeological dig any time soon are "slim," according to Scott Anfinson, director of the Minnesota State Historic Preservation office.
Funding for archaeological work is very limited, he explained

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Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas.
Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeletonalong with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsulacould provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated.
The remains have been excavated over the past four years near the town of Tulum, about 80 miles southwest of Cancún, by a team of scientists led by Arturo González, director of the Desert Museum in Saltillo, Mexico.

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The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has been awarded funding from the National Geographic Society, and is working with divers at The Florida Aquarium, to explore a marine archaeological site at Little Salt Spring.  The excavation, led by UM Marine Affairs and Policy Associate Professor, Dr. John Gifford, is searching for evidence of human habitation in Florida from 10,000 B.C. or 12,000 years ago.

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A local man has unearthed two ancient stone tools in an archaeological dig in Allendale County, S.C., a rare find that could provide more information about how early Americans lived.

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An archaeological dig at Allendale County in the US has uncovered the oldest carbon-dated relics ever found in North America, at 50,000 and 51,000 years old, which supports a controversial theory that humans lived here 37,000 years before the first people arrived in America.
According to a report in The Island Packet, the archaeological dig that has revealed the ancient relics is being carried out at the Topper Site in Allendale County by University of South Carolina archaeologist Dr. Albert Goodyear and colleagues.

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Its hard to imagine life in the Red Wing area before European settlers came and built their cities near the banks of the Mississippi River.
But hundreds of years ago, long before people began using words to record their stories, thousands of people lived in several prehistoric villages in what archaeologists now call the Red Wing Region.

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New evidence, more questions. That's the thumbnail of the first new data reported in 10 years from Monte Verde, the earliest known human settlement in the Americas.
Evidence from the archaeological site in southern Chile confirms Monte Verde is the Americas earliest known settlement and is consistent with the idea that early human migration occurred along the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago, but questions remain about just how rapidly that migration occurred.

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Human DNA from dried excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World - dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture - and provides apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia, according to an international team of 13 scientists.
Among the researchers is Dennis L. Jenkins, a senior archaeologist with the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History, whose summer field expeditions over two summers uncovered a variety of artefacts in caves that had caught the scientific attention of the UO's Luther Cressman in the 1930s.
The Paisley Caves are located in the Summer Lake basin near Paisley, about 220 miles southeast of Eugene on the eastern side of the Cascade Range. The series of eight caves are westward-facing, wave-cut shelters on the highest shoreline of pluvial Lake Chewaucan, which rose and fell in periods of greater precipitation during the Pleistocene.
The team's extensively documented analyses on mitochondrial DNA - genetic material passed on maternally - removed from long-dried faeces, known as coprolites, were published online 3 April in Science Express ahead of regular publication in the journal Science.

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A team led by two Texas A&M University anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines.
The teams findings are outlined in a review article in Science magazine titled The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas, which synthesises new data suggesting the migration from Alaska started about 15,000 years ago.

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The broken skeletons were scattered like random pottery shards, rediscovered where they had fallen centuries ago.
Were these ancient people cut down in some long-forgotten battle? Did European-introduced diseases cause their demise? Were they casualties of some apocalyptic reckoning at this great walled citadel?
The "cloud warriors" of ancient Peru are slowly offering up their secrets - and more questions. Recent digs at this majestic site, once a stronghold of the Chachapoya civilization, have turned up scores of skeletons and thousands of artefacts, shedding new light on these myth-shrouded early Americans and one of the most remarkable, if least understood, of Peru's pre-Columbian cultures.

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