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LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- An excavation of a prehistoric village by Utah researchers is turning up the question: Why so high?
The so-called "High Rise Village" on a slope of Wyoming's Wind River Range is at an elevation of nearly 11,000 feet.
The site holds traces of 51 pit houses and evidence of cooking and tool making.
Utah State University anthropologist Chris Morgan says his excavation could explain how people came to occupy most of the globe by the end of the Pleistocene era about 12,000 years ago.
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