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**Hal Gorges** · 07-19-2020, 01:23 PM

Thank you,nice read, I have known about this site...The part about many articles like this that I don’t understand is, that they never show the artifacts...Can someone please explain for me why that is...

**CMD** · 07-19-2020, 03:48 PM

Originally posted by Hal Gorges View Post

Thank you,nice read, I have known about this site...The part about many articles like this that I don’t understand is, that they never show the artifacts...Can someone please explain for me why that is...

You can see some stuff here, not sure this somewhat earlier stuff is accepted, but I don’t think many things that would be easily recognizable as artifacts by we collectors, were found at Monte Verde anyway....

New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Questions surrounding the chronology, place, and character of the initial human colonization of the Americas are a long-standing focus of debate. Interdisciplinary debate continues over the timing of entry, the rapidity and direction of dispersion, the variety of human responses to diverse habitats, the criteria for evaluating the validity of early sites, and the differences and similarities between colonization in North and South America. Despite recent advances in our understanding of these issues, archaeology still faces challenges in defining interdisciplinary research problems, assessing the reliability of the data, and applying new interpretative models. As the debates and challenges continue, new studies take place and previous research reexamined. Here we discuss recent exploratory excavation at and interdisciplinary data from the Monte Verde area in Chile to further our understanding of the first peopling of the Americas. New evidence of stone artifacts, faunal remains, and burned areas suggests discrete horizons of ephemeral human activity in a sandur plain setting radiocarbon and luminescence dated between at least ~18,500 and 14,500 cal BP. Based on multiple lines of evidence, including sedimentary proxies and artifact analysis, we present the probable anthropogenic origins and wider implications of this evidence. In a non-glacial cold climate environment of the south-central Andes, which is challenging for human occupation and for the preservation of hunter-gatherer sites, these horizons provide insight into an earlier context of late Pleistocene human behavior in northern Patagonia.

**Hal Gorges** · 07-19-2020, 04:51 PM

Saw the firs discoveries like this one,National Geographic...It’s just that I’m frustrated that archeologists and museums hide the good stuff, show the broke jar, and saw the rungs halfway through on the ladder I have to climb to see what was found,, I can find these artifacts if I look long enough, but what about someone just starting out, what’s the mystery, if that writer, wrote about Sheep poop, there would be all kinds of closeups.. Sorry I got carried away,, Shoot me, kick a little dirt on me and call it a day...By the way, thanks for the post .

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