Archaeology in America

A new study questions when people first reached South America

Data suggest people lived at Chile’s Monte Verde site thousands of years later than thought, challenging key “pre-Clovis” evidence. Not all agree.

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Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'

A new analysis of archaeological layers at Monte Verde in Chile suggests that people lived there 4,200 years ago, not 14,500 years ago as originally proposed. But many experts point to errors in the ...

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Unlocking the past : celebrating historical archaeology in North America / edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson, Jr

Introduction: The stuff of histories and cultures / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- PART 1. CULTURES IN CONTACT: MELTING POTS OR NOT? / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- Spaniards and Native Americans at the missions of La ...

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A new study questions when people first reached South America

Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'

Unlocking the past : celebrating historical archaeology in North America / edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson, Jr

The archaeology of Native North America Dean R. Snow, Nancy Gonlin, Peter E. Siegel

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