Earliest human remains in US Arctic reported

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 14:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science....

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