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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...
In a decade of digging, Dillehay's team found an unparalleled array of artifacts, including not only stone tools and animal bones but also chunks of mastodon meat, wild potatoes, and seaweed and other plants that must have been imported from the Pacific coast, some 40 miles away. The archaeologists...
All the artifacts from Monte Verde have now been subjected to dozens of radiocarbon analyses -- a standard archaeological dating technique in which the amount of radioactive carbon in an organic specimen is used to calculate its age. Dillehay says he is "very confident" that he has found remnants of a...
"They are definitely a beatable team," senior Monte Giese insists. "The most important thing for us is mental attitude."