Tuesday, 7. September 2004
Topic: SCIENCE - on September 7, 2004 at 9:11:00 AM CEST
Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia?
Anthropologists stepped into a hornets' nest on Monday, revealing research that suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia. The claim will be extremely unwelcome to today's native Americans who came overland from Siberia and say they were there first.
But Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool said skeletal evidence pointed strongly to this unpalatable truth and hinted that recovered DNA would corroborate it.
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