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Stone tools suggest earlier human presence in North America

by AP Science Writer
| July 22, 2020 8:27 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Stone tools found in a Mexican cave suggest that people were living in North America as early as about 26,500 years ago, much earlier than most scientists accept, a new study says.

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