Could Mammoth Bones Reveal When Humans First Arrived in North America?
Paleontologist Dan Fisher is challenging scientific consensus about when people first came to the continent and how they may have changed the world around them.
Could Mammoth Bones Reveal When Humans First Arrived in North America?
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Secrets Hidden in Ancient Teeth
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The Oldest True Stories in the World
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Peeling Back the History of the Banana
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Did Ancient People Die Young?
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Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange (and So Important)
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