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How new is the New World?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thomas D. Dillehay
Thomas D. Dillehay*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506–0024, USA
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Abstract

The first settlement of the Americas is one of those research questions in which convictions have sometimes seemed as important as data. There has recently been encouragement both for True Believers, in the very early sequence of dates reported by the French from a Brazilian rock-shelter, and for True Sceptics, in the revised and more recent dates now given to some of the older finds from North America after further study by AMS carbon dating. Here, a review of a major new book is the opportunity to review the issues.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 234 , March 1988 , pp. 94 - 97
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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