New data suggest that humans occupied Chile as long ago as 33,000 years ago. But will this end controversy about the date of the first human colonization of the Americas?
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Bray, W. The Palaeoindian debate. Nature 332, 107 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/332107a0
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