The first people lived on the territory of modern Chile and Argentina 16 thousand years ago, which refutes the popular hypothesis of the settlement of America. A study of this by archaeologists from Buenos Aires has been published in Plos One magazine, briefly reported by Fox News Latino.
Scientists have discovered on the Southern Cone (southern part of South America) such evidence of the presence of an ancient man as the bones and remains of animals that died as a result of human activity and, probably, were tools and household items of ancient people. The age of the finds was determined using radiocarbon analysis.
Previously, experts have repeatedly found such artifacts, testifying to the presence of man in South America, which are older than similar traces in North America. The first find of this kind was discovered in the 1980s in southern Chile in Monte Verde.
Researched region of South America
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The popular hypothesis of the settlement of America suggests that the ancient man came to the continent no later than 23 thousand years ago along the ancient isthmus that existed on the site of the Bering Strait. Then these people settled throughout the continent.
In particular, on the territory of North America, less than 10 sites were discovered, where a person was more than 13.2 thousand years ago. However, if people continued to settle in South America, up to, for example, the Southern Cone, then on their way they would leave traces of ancient sites that have not yet been discovered by scientists. This means that the settlement of the continent could have begun not from its northern part, as the popular hypothesis suggests, but in a different way.
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