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Published online 6 September 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040906-5
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Who discovered the Americas?
Skull analysis suggests Australians got there first.
From the BA Festival of Science, Exeter, UK.
The first colonizers of the Americas came from Australia, according to archaeologists who have analysed skulls from 12,000-year-old skeletons found in California.
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