Recent Monte Verde Paper

[Charlie Hatchett]

Paul H., over on the Ma'at board, passed this along:

Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed, National
Geographic, May 8, 2008,

http://tinyurl.com/4r9pw7

US anthropologists detail discovery of earliest American remains
The Canadian Press,

http://tinyurl.com/4s6cnv

Monte Verde, Seaweed, and the Pacific Coast Migration Model,
Kris's Archaeology Blog,

http://tinyurl.com/4osvuj

The paper discussed in the above articles is:

Dillehay, T. D., C. Ramírez, M. Pino, M. B. Collins, J. Rossen,
and J. D. Pino-Navarro, 2008, Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine,
and the Peopling of South America. Science. vol. 320, no. 5877,
pp. 784-786.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5877/784

[trehinp]

Some additional references I just received on "Newswise":

New Evidence About Earliest Americans Supports Coastal Migration Theory

New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early migration route followed the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago.

Click here for more

Yours sincerely.

Paul