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Anthropology

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5. I believe you meant Tom Dillehay & Chile.

Reply to shraby (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 08:10 PM

Dec 2011

Monte Verde is an archaeological site in southern Chile, located in the northern Patagonia near Puerto Montt, Chile, which has been dated to 14,800 years BP. This dating adds to the evidence showing that settlement in the Americas pre-dates the Clovis culture by roughly 1000 years. This contradicts the previously accepted "Clovis first" model which holds that settlement of the Americas began after 13,500 BP.

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Where is everyone? Anybody read the Nov. 2011 Scientific American that destroys Clovis First? [View all] csziggy Dec 2011 OP

Interesting Theory Possumpoint Dec 2011 #1

Hmm, maybe some supporting evidence. Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #11

Digs in South America have shown it was inhabited much earlier than shraby Dec 2011 #2

I believe you meant Tom Dillehay & Chile. era veteran Dec 2011 #5

Yup, Tom, not Tim. Sorry bout that. shraby Dec 2011 #6

I had Dillehay for a class right after he found it. Fascinating era veteran Dec 2011 #9

You lucky stiff! shraby Dec 2011 #10

I have a theory too. Look at a marybourg Dec 2011 #3

Clovis-first has been dead for a while. Also, IMO... Odin2005 Dec 2011 #4

What about the obviously Negroid type heads found in shraby Dec 2011 #7

The Olmec heads? They don't look Sub-Saharan African to me. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #8

The Olmec heads are stylized... a la izquierda Mar 2012 #12