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🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene Monte Verde I (c.33,000–14,800 BP controversial) and Monte Verde II (14,500 BP) · Pre-Clovis Paleo-Indian (Monte Verde)
Earliest reliably dated human occupation in the Americas: peat-preserved hunter-gatherer camp 14,800 BP (Monte Verde II, 33 radiocarbon dates) sealed under peat bog on Chinchihuapi creek floodplain,…
🇺🇸 United States · Submerged site
Pleistocene (exposed 36k–11k; fully closed 21k–14k cal BP brown/green zones) · Paleolithic Siberian / Paleo-American / Dyuktai / Clovis ancestors
36k–11k BCE steppe isthmus Alaska–Siberia now 53 m under strait — 2023 cores re-imagined as tundra, not grass.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art
Paleo-Indian – Inca (c.10,620 BP – 1532 CE) · South Andean hunter-gatherer → Humahuaca → Inca (Coyas)
High puna painted cave system (10,620 BP – Inca 1450) in Humahuaca gorge: 6 caves (Inca Cueva 1,4,7) at 3680 m with stratified sequence: Fell-type projectile points 10.6k, early paintings of…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Paleo-Indian Dalton 8500–7900 BCE · Paleo-Indian Dalton (Sloan Dalton)
8,500 BCE Paleo-Indian cemetery, oldest in the Americas, 475 burials.
