A mid-Holocene age for Monte Verde challenges the timeline of human colonization of South America · T. A. Surovell et al.
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Todd A. Surovell1*, César Méndez2, Juan-Luis García3,4, Christopher Lüthgens5, Jay M. Thompson6, Claudio Latorre4,7,8,9* Our understanding of the timing of the human colonization of South America has been anchored by the Monte Verde II site in Chile, reported to date to ~14,500 years before the present (B.P.) and regarded as one of the most secure pre-Clovis archeological sites. We report the first independent investigation of Monte Verde in the nearly 50 years since initial excavations. We argue that radiocarbon and luminescence dates from alluvial exposures, in combination with the identification of a tephra dated to 11,000 years B.P. stratigraphically underlying the archaeological component, suggest that Monte Verde cannot be older than the Middle Holocene (8200 to 4200 years B.P.). …
摘自《科学》(Science)第391卷 第6791期 · 2026年3月19日,T. A. Surovell et al.。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。