Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archeological dig at the Cooper's Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the area 16,000 years ago, more than a thousand years earlier than scientists previously thought. The artifacts would be considered among the earliest evidence of people in North America. Cooper's Ferry Site 2013 Area A looking east [Credit: Loren Davis]The findings, published in Science, add...

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