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.
M.W. Pedersen/University of Copenhagen
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