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Researchers Unearth 10,600-Yr-Old Spirit Cave Mummy’, Reveal Modern Humans Came to America Earlier Than Thought

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The Spirit Cave Mummy ’, was a human skeleton that was unearthed in 1940 in northwest Nevada .

Genomic analysis and further proceeding were published in an article in the journal Nature .

The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe demanded to be given the remains for reburial.

This was opposed by the US government which was against the repatriation.

Recent genetic analysis proved the skeleton was better related to present Native Americans than to other global populations.