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When did early people arrive in America?

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Generally, people claim that early people were here by about 12,000 years ago. That date is chosen because spears were found with the bones of animals that became extinct after that time. But, there is other evidence that could mean that people were here as long as 50,000 years ago.

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The archaeological community is in general agreement that the ancestors of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas of historical record entered the Americas at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), shortly after 20,000 years ago, with ascertained archaeological presence shortly after 16,000 years ago.

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