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On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile

1997; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 62; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/281884

2325-5064

David J. Meltzer, Donald K. Grayson, Gerardo Duarte, Alex W. Barker, Dena F. Dincauze, C. Vance Haynes, Francisco Mena, Láutaro Núñez, Dennis J. Stanford,

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

The potential importance of the Monte Verde site for the peopling of the New World prompted a detailed examination of the collections from that locality, as well as a site visit in January 1997 by a group of Paleoindian specialists. It is the consensus of that group that the MV-II occupation at the site is both archaeological and 12,500 years old, as T. Dillehay has argued. The status of the potentially even older material at the site (MV-1, ∼ 33,000 B.P.) remains unresolved.