Ancient hunter-gatherers across North America had direct contact 4,000 years ago, archaeological evidence suggests
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Bruce Bower
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Archaeological evidence from a 4,000-year-old grave site in the southeastern United States, featuring a ceremonial copper object and burial practices, closely matches those found at hunter-gatherer sites near the Great Lakes. This suggests that ancient North American hunter-gatherers had direct contacts across vast distances of over 1,500 kilometers, possibly through emissaries, traders, or religious pilgrims.
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Because the object and practices appear together, emissaries, traders or perhaps even religious pilgrims must have traveled most or all of the more than 1,500 kilometers from the Upper...
Ancient North American hunter-gatherers had direct contacts with people living halfway across the continent, researchers say.
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