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Mar 1, 1000
first settlement
The first human settlement of America could be located in southern Chile, and the place was occupied 1000 years sooner than you was previously thought. A group of US scientists ensures in the journal Science found the evidence that supports this revelation. Their study claims that populations followed a migration path for the Pacific Coast more than -
Apr 19, 1000
first settlement
was created by humans 1000 years before any other so far discovered in the American continent according to the study. -
Jan 1, 1400
first settlement
14,000 years ago. Monte Verde in the south of Chile, could therefore the oldest human settlement in the Americas, scientists confirmed in a study published today in the journal Science. The conclusion of the study conducted by a team of anthropologists, geologists and botanists headed by Tom Dillehay, professor of Anthropology of the Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, is based on the analysis of a marine algae found at the scene, 15 kilometers from the coast Chilean. -
Apr 5, 1400
A RIVER SHORE
When was inhabited, some 14,000 years ago, Monte verde was on the banks of a great river, about 70 kilometers from the coast and 15 of a bay. In the place scientists found nine different species of marine plants and algae that the inhabitants of Monte Verde surely they brought from sea, according to scientists. The researchers also found marine small stones remains of aquatic plants as well as materials coming from an estuary. -
SETTLING MONTEVERDE
Monte Verde, 760 miles south of Santiago, was discovered in 1976. The ruins reveal the place that was occupied by between 20 and 30 people who built shacks beside a stream. The announcement that the place had 14,000 years old generated an controversy in the scientific world since that seemed come into conflict with other human settlements in North America. Until that time it was believed that the colonization of what is now America began 13,000 years ago when hunters who were part of the so-cal -
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A RIVER SHORE
Moreover, the finding of remains of land animals typically demonstrates that the group was traveling between different ecological zones. If the first colonizers of the continent had a similar displacement between the interior and the coast, then it is possible that migration was not as fast as was believed. It was rather "a much slower and deliberate process," said Dillehay