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Central and South America collided much earlier than previously thought

The ground beneath northern South America holds memories far older than any city or road. Locked inside ancient volcanic rocks is a record of when continents collided, mountains rose, and the shape of ...
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The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...