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Critics attack study that rewrote human arrival in Americas

Mounting scepticism challenges report that put hominins on continent more than 100,000 years earlier than most scientists accept.
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Archaeologists are taking aim at a controversial study that claimed to rewrite theories about when humans first reached the Americas, one of the biggest questions in palaeoanthropology.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-01713-y

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  • Correction 08 February 2018: An earlier version of this story cited the wrong paper in reference 2.

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