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Anthropology

wnylib

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11. Good points. Thanks. There was more than one wave

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Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:03 PM

Apr 2024

of migration into the Americas, and likely more than one way of arriving, e.g. some by land and some by boats.

I love tracing linguistic families and their developments, but I'm doubtful about how much we can learn about timing from them or how far back they can be traced to specific origins.

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