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1997: Anthropology
During 1997 anthropologists announced the discovery of 117,000-year-old human footprints in South Africa and pushed back the generally accepted date for the oldest human habitation of the Americas by over 1,000 years. Scientists also reported the first successful extraction and analysis of ancient...
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