Monte Verde and the antiquity of humankind in the Americas
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 71 (273) , 573-580
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00085331
Abstract
The Smithsonian Institution Press (with a patience one no longer expects of a scholarly publisher) early this year issued the second volume of Tom Dillehay's monograph on Monte Verde, in far southern Chile — 8 years after the first volume (Dillehay 1989; 1997). What is the standing of the site? Is it the long-sought-after proof of a ‘pre-Clovis’ human presence in the Americas? And if it is, why is it by the southern tip of the Western Hemisphere, rather than close to its northern portal from Siberia?Keywords
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