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Monte Verde and the antiquity of humankind in the Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. M. Adovasio  and
D. R. Pedler
J. M. Adovasio
Affiliation:
Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA 16546, USA
D. R. Pedler
Affiliation:
Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA 16546, USA
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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?

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 273 , September 1997 , pp. 573 - 580
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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