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Skeleton of 12,000 year-old teenage girl found

A 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl has been found inside a huge underground chamber north of the city of Tulum, in the eastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Research done on her skeleton and DNA just released by the journal Science bolsters the theory that pioneers arrived from Asia by way of a land bridge that has long since disappeared.
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