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Americas

Landmass comprising the continents of north america and south america

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Matthew Robert Bennett, Sally Christine Reynolds
September 24, 2021
HowStuffWorks
Footprints unearthed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico were made some 23,000 years ago. That's much earlier than scientists have previously placed humans in the Americas.
By CHRISTINA LARSON, AP Science Writer
September 24, 2021
Chron
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early...
By Paul Rincon
September 23, 2021
BBC News
Scientists have found evidence that humans reached the Americas earlier than previously thought.
Kiona N. Smith
September 23, 2021
Ars Technica
People may have walked along the shore of a lake in New Mexico 23,000 years ago.
Stacy Kish
August 6, 2021
phys.org
During the first century of American colonization, as many as 20 million people in Mexico perished from disease, violence, and exploitation. Jennifer Scheper Hughes, a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Riverside, examines this period from historical and theological perspectives in her new book, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas."
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