From 1977 to 1985, Tom Dillehay of the University of Kentucky patiently excavated in Monte Verde, near Puerto Montt in Chilean Patagonia. The material found is very rich and well preserved. This is the remains of a camp of 12 huts of sticks and skins with a radiocarbon dated to 12,500 years BC The remains include stone tools and organic materials such as bone, ivory and logs. The bones are of mastodons, llamas, fish and seafood.
Even more surprising is the discovery of MV-II (Monteverde deeper layers II), a camp yet Oldest: 33000 years BC In this coating is removed only a few stone tools. Dillehay prefer Monteverde I finish studying, before delving into the more remote site. The scientific world waits impatiently.
If confirmed human presence in more than 30 thousand years old in Monteverde, it would give a new twist to the explanation of the peopling of America. It confirmed that thousands of years before that Asians come to America by the Bering Strait, and the Melanesian or Australians had come to South Amercia after crossing the Pacific Ocean.
