High altitude humans living ~11,000 years ago (24 October 2014)

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High altitude humans living ~11,000 years ago (24 October 2014)

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Kurt Rademaker discusses his work exploring the Andean plateau for artifacts of the earliest high-altitude humans, Paleoindians that lived at 4500 meters more than 11,000 years ago. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: David-Stanley/Flickr]

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Oct 24, 2014

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