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Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas
An island eroding into the bay offers tantalizing clues about when and how humans first made their way into North America.
— With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stoodback and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach. To the untrained eye, this wall of sandy sediment is the unremarkable edge of a modest island southeast of the Bay Bridge. The island has yielded exciting, but controversial, evidence of humans in the Americas more than 20,000 years ago.
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