Humans may have taken different path into Americas than thought
Arctic passage wouldn’t have provided enough food for the earliest Americans’ journey
BARREN LANDSCAPE A passage between the colossal glaciers that once covered the North American Arctic, shown here in present day, may have contained too little vegetation and wildlife to nourish the earliest human migrations into the rest of the Americas.
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The first American pioneers could not have reached the New World the way most textbooks say they did, researchers conclude in a new study.