US EditionStudy suggests younger age for Chile's important Monte Verde archaeological site
New geological analysis suggests human occupation at Monte Verde occurred 4,200–8,600 years ago, challenging its status as the earliest South American site, researchers say.
- A study suggests the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile dates to between 4,200 and 8,200 years ago, much more recent than the 14,500 years old previously thought.
- Researchers used three scientific dating methods on material from Monte Verde to arrive at the new age estimate.
- The new findings make Monte Verde irrelevant to the debate about when humans first entered the Americas, as it is now considered too recent.
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New Finds Rewrite Timeline Of When Humans Reached South America
Monte Verde site. Credit: Geología Valdivia / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 A new study is reshaping the debate over when humans first settled South America. Researchers say one of the most important early sites, Monte Verde in southern Chile, may be much younger than long believed. The findings challenge decades of research and could change how scientists understand the first human migration into the Americas. The study, led by Todd A. Surovell…
Research May Upend What We Thought About Early Humans
Monte Verde, long treated as one of the earliest human camps in South America, is suddenly at the center of a sharp scientific split over the timeline. A new study in Science argues that the famed Chilean site isn't a 14,500-year-old camp from the ice age at all, but...
The Monte Verde site in Chile helped scientists write the story of when humans first settled the Americas in the 1970s. At the time, the site was estimated to be around 14,500 years old. Now, a new study suggests it may be much younger.
The analysis of the finds in Monte Verde in Chile has aroused special interest for decades. They should prove that America had already been inhabited more than 14,500 years ago. But a new investigation comes to completely different findings. Do textbooks have to be rewritten?
In the lower mountain ranges of southern Chile, south-west of Puerto Montt, is the archaeological site Monte Verde, which until today was thought to be the oldest settlement in the whole continent. Prior to its discovery in 1980, archaeologists proposed that the first inhabitants of America belonged to the Clovis culture and had arrived on the continent 10,500 years ago, by Central America, in what is now New Mexico, expanding further south of t…
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