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Jan 2021
47m 18s

The Americas from Foraging to Agricultur...

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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The initial migrations to the Americas get most of the attention, but people didn't stop living there in the aftermath of those first movements of peoples; they spread out over the Great Plains and the forests of the eastern United States, south into the deserts and jungles of Mesoamerica, and into every corner of South America. In the process, they invented ... Show More
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