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Remarkable evidence of ancient humans found under Florida river

Reuters: Science - Posted: May 13th, 2016, 3:10pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who dove hundreds of times into a sinkhole beneath the brown murky waters of Florida's Aucilla River have retrieved some of the oldest evidence of human presence in the Americas including stone tools apparently used to butcher a mastodon.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=xA1gq-4Euvs:b5aJAnKQ0KM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=xA1gq-4Euvs:b5aJAnKQ0KM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=xA1gq-4Euvs:b5aJAnKQ0KM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=xA1gq-4Euvs:b5aJAnKQ0KM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=xA1gq-4Euvs:b5aJAnKQ0KM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/xA1gq-4Euvs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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