Word: chinchihuapi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
| 1 |