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World Service,09 May 2006,26 mins

The first Americans

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Aubrey Manning travels to Mexico in search of the first Americans. Although it is seen as the 'New World' the Americas were also a new world to older civilisations. The programme explores the work of archaeologists who have found evidence of life there over 40,000 years ago.

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