Radiocarbon dates from Monte Verde, Chile, averaged approximately 12,500 radiocarbon years before present, about 1,000 years earlier than the Clovis culture.
Sources
- Monte Verde Under Fire - Archaeology Magazine Archive (archive.archaeology.org)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna3077301 (nbcnews.com)
- https://journals.calstate.edu/esjoa/article/view/2860 (journals.calstate.edu)
- http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Chumash/MonteVerde.html (cogweb.ucla.edu)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241524991_Geological_perspectives_on_the_Monte_Verde_archeological_site_in_Chile_and_pre-Clovis_coastal_migration_in_the_Americas (researchgate.net)
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