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Evaluating claims for an early peopling of the Americas: the broader context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2019

John McNabb
John McNabb*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK (Email: scarab@soton.ac.uk)
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Antiquity , Volume 93 , Issue 369 , June 2019 , pp. 802 - 807
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