Word: chile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sources said Young had been accepted by the Business School at the time of his resignation, and deferred his enrollment until fall 1991. After the resignation, he left to do volunteer work in Chile...
Money is also set aside for physical sciences infrastructure, renovations for Hoffman Laboratory and the Geology Museums, and the establishment of a "Center for Global Change." The plan sets aside $15 million to help build "the largest university telescope in the southern hemisphere" in Chile with Cambridge University
...only a small band of renegade archaeologists, has become too compelling to ignore. Its thesis is that the first migration took place not 11,500 years ago but 20,000 or 30,000 or even 50,000 years ago. Although the evidence is still sketchy, archaeological digs in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, the U.S. and Canada have yielded tantalizing clues that this radical notion might be correct. "This is a hot area of research," says Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. "Man's origin in the New World is one of the major unanswered questions of archaeology...
Monte Verde, Chile...
Perhaps the most convincing candidate for a pre-Clovis site is Monte Verde, on the Chinchihuapi Creek in southern Chile. A team led by University of Kentucky archaeologist Tom Dillehay discovered indisputable traces there of a human settlement that was inhabited between 12,800 and 12,300 years ago. Usually all scientists can find from that far back are stones and bones. In this case, thanks to a peat layer that formed during the late Pleistocene era, organic matter was mummified and preserved as well...