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Published online 8 May 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.808
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Early Americans had a coastal diet
Settlers travelled to the coast to get their seaweed.
Seaweed was an important source of food and medicine at the oldest human site in the Americas, suggests a new report. The findings suggest that these early explorers previously lived along the coast.
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